#column

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

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

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press? ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#asked #column #could #done #him

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#accountant #anything #big #big issue #chicago

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#column #criticizing #had #i #i think

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#community #consistently #got #know #like

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#column #done #ego #fun #good

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#column #constant #go #gold #great