Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.