More Grammar Matters

The Toronto Star's Editor-in-Chief has written a column saying, basically, what I said about CTV's interview with Stephane Dion, which is nice to see. What's irritating about this, for me, is not that the interviewer--whose job requires, if nothing else, clear and effective communicative skills--made a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes. What's irritating is that neither CTV's anchor, who was unable to recognize his mistake and clarify the question, nor CTV's editors, who chose to run the interview uncut, realized the mistake. These people are journalists?