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  • noun Plural form of columnist.

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Examples

  • But the idea about nixing staff sports columnists is as wrong as wrong can be.

    New News: Deconstructing the newspaper « BuzzMachine 2006

  • 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

  • The New York Times policy of charging for online access to its columnists is a blessing and a curse.

    10/25/2005 2005

  • 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?"

    Daimnation!: I should have known. I 2003

  • 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.

    Matthew Yglesias » Crack Versus Powder 2007

  • 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.

    Griot Society vs. Cavalier Daily at cvillenews.com 2002

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Is Press Harder On Hillary? More Writers Weigh In 2009

  • 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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