For a start, professional columnists carry with them the weight of their entire publication.
Another tenet among professional columnists: Don't use a platform to settle personal scores.
News is news, and editorialising it is a tricky business best left to professionals, columnists, and other low-rent humans.
Why not just hire a professional wine columnist?
–- Huel Perkins, lead anchor, FOX2 News (WJBK-TV) Detroit Hailed by noted novelist and magazine editor Beaufort Cranford as "the best feature writer in Detroit," Jim McFarlin has enjoyed an outstanding 35-year career as a professional journalist, columnist, entertainment critic and media talent.
Cynthia Johnson is a branding and marketing professional, business advisor, columnist and speaker, who stands out from the rest.
As Elsa Maxwell, the gossip columnist and professional hostess, wrote in her 1954 autobiography, "R.S.V.P.," the "best games are those in which failure is comical rather than embarrassing".
Above – or possibly below – party political allegiances stood Rod Liddle, Spectator columnist and professional agent provocateur who now spends much of his day inelegantly straddling that ever-shifting line in the blogosphere between being racist and merely racist-baiting.
In the early rounds of the World Cup, the Australian columnist and professional contrarian Rita Panahi revealed she "couldn't care less about women's sport" because, she claimed, it was an "inferior product".
On Thanksgiving Day, VICE's senior parenting columnist, the professional rapper and male model Kool A.D., dropped a 100-song mixtape called O.K.
