Newsmax: What’s Going Wrong?

I spend a few minutes a week watching right-wing “news” shows, to get a feel for how they present their material. One thing I notice is that NewsMax, in their lower third, is rife with typos.  Four examples in the last 10 minutes:

Trump Wants Rebuild Gaza (should be Trump Wants To Rebuild Gaza)

Hanlde (misspelling of “handle”)

Gender Polcies (misspelling of “policies”)

On our great nations desk (should be “on our great nation’s desk)

At first, I wrote this off as a function of the fact that many of their viewers are functionally illiterate.  But then I noticed that their advertisers make precisely zero mistakes; they don’t mind spending a few dollars on editors and proofreaders.

These sponsors may be selling snake-oil food supplements, or sham precious metal hedges against the coming “stock market crash precipitated by Biden,” or the need for “patriots” to buy high-priced off-grid power-generation equipment that is essentially solar panels and batteries, sold to everyone else at a small fraction of the price.

I honestly don’t know what’s going wrong here, but it’s pitiful.

Above is a solicitation to buy shares in Newsmax.  I’ll pass.