Bad Writing

I thought I'd found another good online reference for beginning writers until I spotted, early on, a wrong verb. The word choice changed the entire tone of the article to something the writer did not intend. When I contacted him about it, part of his reply was "It's JUST a blog". The writing concerns communication. It is published on the Internet in the author's website, where he touts himself as a "writer" in three online publications and the editor of another. In his vitriolic rebuttal he said, "I'm not a writer", as if that excused him from any responsibility. Some online writers seem to want to have their cake and eat it too, as the saying goes. They want copyright protection and to be seen as experts whose sites merit inbound links, but without accountability for the example their writing presents. The saddest part of this adolescent attitude is that they perpetuate one another's mistakes and cultivate the culture of "I saw it on the web, so it must be right".