#column

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#drive #enough #got #guardian #i

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#after #bulk #column #come #emails

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#business #columnist #gossip #his #none

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anything #become #called #campaigning #columnist

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns. ↗

— Mike Royko

#columns #editorials #good #hollywood #impact

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. ↗

— William Safire

#any #aside #cast #column #day

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow. ↗

— William Safire

#columnists #drawn #eager #follow #grasp

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time. ↗

— William Safire

#appointment #being #columnist #court #like

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#dollars #five #got #i #more