Richard K. Rein
Why in the world for the past 30 or 35 years have I been lugging around boxes of books, from one city to another,...
Richard K. Rein
Where is Paul Harvey when we really need him? Harvey was that no-nonsense syndicated radio commentator who would summarize a piece of news, and...
Richard K. Rein
Herewith the fifth and final installment of the columns on columns — the subject of our annual journalism review in this space. We have...
Irreverent Fun at the Trentonian
Our survey of the journalistic landscape continues, this time dealing with columns and columnists. Last week our stop was the Times o’ Trenton (not...
On the Importance of Columns
If you don’t believe that newspaper columns are still an important part of the journalistic landscape (as I have argued in the space in...
The Art of the Newspaper Column
So what are we to make of these pesky newspaper columnists whose names (and often faces) stare out at us from most every newspaper...