Who Proofs This Stuff?

I can get away with poor grammar and spelling mistakes because a) I r blggng on teh innernits and b) I'm not being paid a salary for the tid-bits I post to good ole I of Scribe. But scanning the local "news" I just had to gape in astonishment at this...

"i've known ron for eight years, great guy and I've known and worked with him for eight years, even though from different sides. And we may disagree on some issues, I've known him pretty well. I can be there for him so that's what I'm going to do," said councillor Jim Bradford.

"If T thought that this had any validity or merit at all, I would call for his removal," said councillor Lonnell Conley.

This is cut and pasted directly from the copy as it appears (as of this writing) on WISH TV's website. Let's see... the obvious mistakes... two capitalization errors right off the bat and then... T? Who is T? Are they talking about a person? I know we call the President of the country "W". Or is that just a new way of typing a capital "i"?

Yeah, ok - maybe I should be talking about the topic of the story, but... come on folks. Check your work. It really detracts from the point of the story when the article looks like it'd been banged out by a cat on the keyboard. For the full story, click the hyperlink which follows this sentence.

http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=5476090