#column

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

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

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong. ↗

— Bill Scott

#columnist #did #favorite #find #game

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

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#away #basis #column #depend #easy