Author: Bill Walsh
What follows is an excerpt from the late Bill Walsh’s book Yes, I Could Care Less, Bill was a copy editor at The Washington Post and beloved within the greater copy editing community. The American Copy Editors Society has established a scholarship in his name. “Look out, Matthew Modine and Charlene Tilton. There are new stars in town. Sky stars!” That was Kent Brockman, the TV news anchorman on The Simpsons, in an illustration of what we call a retronym. Real people don’t talk about “sky stars,” of course (or Matthew Modine and Charlene Tilton, for that matter), but we do sometimes…