Sentence examples for paid columnists from inspiring English sources

Federal agencies, for example, have paid columnists to write favorably about the administration.

I had no idea when I met them in a crowded hotel bar that members of our group would go on to become New York Times bestsellers, regular contributors to television news outlets, Huffington Post contributors, web show hosts, paid columnists, award winners, brand ambassadors and conference planners.

He informed Mr. Borzellieri, who was elected three times to School Board 24 in western Queens, that he would be suspended indefinitely as a paid columnist for the newspaper chain.

Writing later for the Birther website World Net Daily, for which he is now a paid columnist, Santorum insinuated that the convention invested the UN with Solomonic powers to decide whether his disabled daughter Bella should live or die.

Mr Royal's email also referred to Mr Bryant's work as a paid columnist for The Independent, which is owned by the Russian father and son, Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev, and his work with the PR company Bell Pottinger, whose clients include the exiled Russian oligarch, Boris Berezovsky.

Marr replies: I fear this is a lost cause, I don't think much can be done now... it's much easier to pay columnists to fill space rather than pay for a team of reporters.

Publications often pay columnists and other writers as freelancers, rather than giving them a full-time job position, in order to get relationship advice columns.

In the past six years, the Administration and its surrogates have issued a stream of disinformation about intelligence and Iraq; paid friendly "columnists" like Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher tens of thousands of dollars to parrot the White House line; accredited to the White House press corps a phony journalist and ex-prostitute (Jeff BulldogGannonnon, a.k.a.a

Or, at least, the glittering constellation of news and entertainment companies, Wall Street firms, political consultants, civic boosters, paid gossips, columnists, pundits, publicists, and solipsists who feed — and in turn batten on — the impression that unless something happens in New York it doesn't happen.

It's comment and opinion, not news, that really adds value to newspapers in the Internet age – and as such the really smart editors will get rid of all their costly reporters and use the money instead to fill their pages with nothing but highly paid opinion columnists.

A20 Bush Bans Paying Columnists With his administration under fire for questionable publicity practices, President Bush explicitly forbade his Cabinet to pay commentators to promote his policies.