In the meantime, labor rates have risen (a Timesman today lives better than a Timesman then) but production technology has become far more automated and efficient (no more typesetters, proofreaders, compositors, engravers, stereographers, mailrooms, or "rubber rooms" filled with unneeded pressmen).
Leave proofreading to the proofreaders and focus on the science.
The final proof was read by no less than seven expert proofreaders, lest the slightest tremble in the tail of a comma or the faintest cast in a capital "I" offend the fastidious eyes of the Great American Public.
Mr. F., referring to Johann Sebastian Bach, wrote, "So ran the Kapel meister's hymn unending," & our printer, in a burst of midnight idiocy & with no effective blocking from editors & proofreaders, made it, "So ran Kapellmeister's hymn unending".
Frank had the daunting job of sorting out the inevitable reduction of the printing staff, I of training several hundred journalists to use their new computers and to realise they no longer had the comforting support of typesetters or proofreaders.
(I hereby unveil myself as her proofreader — no easy role when you're hyperventilating).
Did no editor or proofreader wonder what was being undermined and who or what was being fellated?
This was somewhat undermined when it was discovered that the Greniers had kept a secret cache of 30 pornographic drawings made by Lautrec, one of which shows him being fellated by Lily". Did no editor or proofreader wonder what was being undermined and who or what was being fellated?
One day, an intrepid art director will come to a concert and discover that the classical audience is well populated by schoolteachers, proofreaders, students, retirees, and others with no entry in the Social Register.
