What’s happened to “who”?

[Port Power]

What’s happened to “who”? For example, this extract from the AFF article on fuel surcharges:
“Many Qantas Frequent Flyer members that have been earning points in the interim period to use towards an international trip may be in for a shock.”

People are “who”, dogs and cats are “that”. Even ABC presenters are using the wrong word.
I am extremely irked by the use of incorrect grammar and word usage. I just have to say it somewhere!

 

[Happy Trails]

Not at all aimed at the OP but this came to mind...

Hmmm, "literary illusion"?
I'm not seeing an intended pun there.

 

[get me outta here]

I should have got some of the $10 million that Morrison gave Murdoch's Fox News this week (further to the other $30 million Morrison gave Murdoch). Then, I could train to be a proofreader.
That's tax payer's money that should have enabled the ABC as a free to air channel to show women's sport, not Fox, a pay channel.

Proofreaders. (HVR got it right in post #2)

 

[vetrade]

For me the grammatical "race to the bottom" became inevitable the day the Macquarie Dictionary broadened the definition of "misogymy" to accommodate ex PM Julia Gillard's misuse of the word. That would be the same legally qualified Julia Gillard who cluelessly pronounced "hyperbole" in an interview as "hyperbowl".

 

[Franky]

I should have got some of the $10 million that Morrison gave Murdoch's Fox News this week (further to the other $30 million Morrison gave Murdoch). Then, I could train to be a proofreader.
That's tax payer's money that should have enabled the ABC as a free to air channel to show women's sport, not Fox, a pay channel.

But who would watch it?

 

[get me outta here]

I don’t know what the question pertains to, but I certainly do not watch Fox sports.

But who would watch it?

 

[Franky]

I don’t know what the question pertains to, but I certainly do not watch Fox sports.

Watching womens sport on the ABC...

 

[TheRealTMA]

Watching womens sport on the ABC...

love it. Netball is excellent and so is the World champion Australian womens’ cricket team.

Anything, actually, than the boring boofheads who are paid millions of dollars to play with a small pigskin ball and thump each other to the entertainment of the colosseum crowd.

 

[Happy Dude]

Proof readers are depleted at the ABC due to budget cuts.

Yes precisely what I was alluding to, although it's death by a thousand cuts. I'm still cross that they couldn't find the money to keep making "The Checkout".

 

[Buzzard]

For me the grammatical "race to the bottom" became inevitable the day the Macquarie Dictionary broadened the definition of "misogymy" to accommodate ex PM Julia Gillard's misuse of the word. That would be the same legally qualified Julia Gillard who cluelessly pronounced "hyperbole" in an interview as "hyperbowl".

Misogyny not misogymy if I am correct.

 

[vetrade]

Misogyny not misogymy if I am correct.

You are absolutely correct, Buzzard. I'll blame old man's "fat finger syndrome" for the typo.