Oct. 9, 2019
Compliments to copy editors and fact checkers
Both of these occupations are just about obsolete, like human computers as performing calculations for NASA to put a man on the moon, depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures"; or milkmen, whom I am old enough to recall vaguely from the galvanized box on the porch.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
I have an unusual like, for a writer: copy editors -- as well as fact-checkers. Both of these occupations are just about obsolete, like human computers as performing calculations for NASA to put a man on the moon, depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures"; or milkmen, whom I am old enough to recall vaguely from the galvanized box on the porch. As a writer, I prefer working for the periodicals and the websites that allow me the freedom to select a subject and who are sparing in their revisions...
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