"The GM EV1 is the greatest single product disaster since the Edsel," says Jerry Flint, Forbes auto industry columnist.
As has become an annual custom, just about every industry columnist, and legions of bloggers, have weighed in with their list of favorites.
Fifteen years ago Osborne, the first company to make a splash with a self-contained luggable PC that ran all sorts of bundled software (another first for this computer company eponymously named after its leader Adam Osborne, an early computer industry columnist), went through $100 million in revenues, and declared bankruptcy in a little over a year.
In the process, she has "almost single-handedly begotten a new branch of the psychology industry," a columnist for Die Welt complained two years ago.
"In the mist and rain that continued yesterday in the wake of Deputed Testamony's Preakness victory, if the Pimlico infield looked like a soggy mess with a giant hangover, the sun was shining on the rest of the Maryland racing industry," Sun columnist Bob Maisel wrote at the time.
Born in 1989, Ms Geldof began her career in the entertainment industry as a columnist for Elle Magazine at the age of 15.
As in other markets, ESPNNewYork has lured people from the ailing newspaper industry, including the columnist Ian O'Connor from The Record of Bergen County; Wallace Matthews from Newsday to cover the Yankees; and Adam Rubin from The Daily News to cover the Mets.
Columnists are the new kings of journalism, bringing what Andrew Marr calls "a higher form of reporting" in an industry that the veteran columnist and Daily Mail diarist Peter McKay admitted in the British Journalism Review, is often driven to "feats of hyperbole".
In addition to Weldon and Keyes, the panel will comprise reviewers, celebrity book lovers and industry experts, including Guardian columnist and associate editor of The Spectator Rod Liddle, and Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller.
Among the contributions from designers, photographers, models, actors and journalists on their efforts to create sustainable change within the fashion and media industry are actress Emma Watson, Daily Mail columnist Liz Jones, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, and model Summer Rayne Oakes.
Yet not all who disagree are trolls, and Chmielarz's writing has a knack of rubbing his fellow professionals up the wrong way too, such as Tadhg Kelly, TechCrunch columnist and industry writer.
