However, I am writing to ask whether there is any type of check on columnists with respect to the subjects they choose, or the tone and content of their pieces".
A: One of my book projects involves Colorado history which inevitably includes politics, but if you're asking if I intend to become a blogger, columnist or some type of advocate, I can tell you I don't intend to do that.
Dominique Wolton, a French academic and media critic, has since described a type of relationship between "a little caste of columnists and star journalists" and many French politicians as "intolerable collusion".
Lee is no stranger to this type of controversy: Back in 1989, pundits, including conservative columnist Joe Klein, erroneously fretted that his masterpiece Do the Right Thing would provoke riots among young African-American moviegoers.
But talk radio host Mark Levin, the type of conservative media figure who the new Times columnist has argued hurts the Republican Party, didn't: Stephens "is an intellectual light-weight," he wrote.
"He has to accept that from now on a type of collegial power" will govern the country, Eduardo van der Kooy, a political columnist for the daily Clarín, said today.
A.G.S.: If you look back at the history of conservative columnists at the New York Times, you see this type of reaction each time someone starts.
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Less obvious, though, is another type of ideological aggression, a prime example of which was provided unwittingly by the occasionally erudite New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Mike Doogan, who for 14 years was a columnist with The Anchorage Daily News before he became a Democratic state legislator, said he understood her appeal to a certain type of female voter.
