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- noun Plural form of
columnist .
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Examples
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But the idea about nixing staff sports columnists is as wrong as wrong can be.
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The problem with so many of the conservative columnists is that they start with the screwed up and wrong premises; therefore, their arguments and conclusions fail.
Think Progress » “The rest of the world simply can’t afford 2005
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The New York Times policy of charging for online access to its columnists is a blessing and a curse.
10/25/2005 2005
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The default position of newspaper columnists is supposed to be one of generalised omniscience, but I cannot be wholly alone in the world if I admit that my reaction on hearing the news on Saturday was "what space shuttle?"
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Lemuel Pitkin: While I wouldn’t dispute that Eric Alterman seems excessively well-supplied with self-regard, his criticism of Time as lacking liberal columnists is longstanding and provides context for his irate comments when they finally added a liberal columnist but it was someone he perceived as lacking a reputation for seriousness.
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Regardless of any questions about the Griot Society, it’s pretty clear to me after spending a the past couple years at the university that certain columnists – Anthony Dick leading the pack – write some pretty ill-informed opinion columns.
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I've been a subscriber of a number of different newspapers over the years and sometimes the columnists were the primary reason why I chose a particular paper to subscribe to.
SciFi Wire Cancels Written Columns - Are They Truly An Unfortunate Holdover From The Days of Print? 2009
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The MSM editors always seem to give their big name columnists free rein to distort.
George Will Distorts WaPo's Own Reporting To Smear Jim Webb 2009
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She's got a host of big name columnists in her corner, running her theme of the day like its received wisdom: Paul Krugman, Dan Thomassan, Ellen Goodman, and Joe Conason, to name a few.
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WASHINGTON - They used to be known as the boys on the bus: the big-name columnists, network TV producers and reporters for large-circulation newspapers who had the power to make or break a presidential candidate's reputation.
December 2003 2003
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