It Really Sucks When Writers Can't Write (or Spell)...especially when they work for the New York Times

Take a look at the following phrase and then take a look at the caption below the photo....

News Analysis
Who Won the Writers Strike?

Monty Brinton/CBS

A scene from “The Amazing Race,” a reality show and ratings winner on CBS. During the writers’ guild strike, networks have relied even more heavily on such programming.

By DAVID CARR

Published: February 12, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/arts/television/12strike.html?ref=arts

Hopefully by now you have noticed the discrepancy between the caption and the headline...

Why is the plural possessive used in one place (with respect to the word "writers") and ignored in another?

This is really disappointing considering this is the New York Times...

Granted they've lost some of their luster as a result of the dude that wrote all of those fake war stories a few years ago and then passed them off as legitimate - much to the surprise of his supervisors, etc...

Nevertheless this is a major force in American news publishing...

What the hell dudes? Are you really that careless??

Don't you guys have a grammar manual handy? I mean come on - that is just ridiculous.

I'm not even a legitimate writer or reporter and I can do a quick 2.5 nanosecond duration Google search to research the rules of possessive plural and use of the apostrophe...

See? It's so easy...here you go: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html