It pains me to open your news articles and feel like it's a more-than-a-coin-flip chance of whether I'm going to stumble into an eighth-grade grammar or publishing consistency mistake.

Yes, I know you guys look here.

I opened up a random front-page article to make sure I wasn't losing it and I found one! And I just opened another and found some publishing consistency errors (and the same error elsewhere)! And another just now! And one more for good measure.

I know it's picky and obnoxious to have some random Internet person sit through poking at your grammar, but that's why you pay someone to do that for you before it goes to print. You're a professional publication, dammit. I've self-edited and self-published for a professional organization and can manage cleaner copy. There's no excuse for a company of your scale.

Please hire someone. It can be me — hello, I'm hunting for a job and have had the time to read NJ.com nowadays — it can be a twelfth-grader who edits a school paper, it can be anyone capable of the work. Just do something about it. At best, it's unprofessional. At worst, it's a subtle reflection of a dying industry that this state needs to have alive.

I almost want to put up a sort of "weekly top mistakes" thread, but I don't want to do the work without a paycheck.