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How To Be A Columnist #

March 13th, 2008 | In Worth Reading 

Jack Shafer tears into a Wall Street Journal columnist. It’s not that interesting, but I did very much enjoyed the first paragraph:

Desperate newspaper columnists can always grind out a quick piece by purchasing a large burlap bag and stuffing “The Press” and several pounds of broken glass inside it. Drag to a steep, long staircase, give it a shove, and the column almost writes itself.