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Some points all column writers should keep in mind

Tom Coates published this list of good-to-know points for aspiring column writers over at plasticbag.org. Maybe I should send this to the local morning paper. ;)

Most of these points are also applicable on webloggers. Provided that they are trying to write for an audience that is. I especially like this one:

Let the bandwagon roll by. Even if every columnist in the land is commenting on the mother unjustly sent to prison or the teacher who handcuffed the child to a radiator, you don't have to jump aboard unless you have something to say that the others haven't already said.

All the columnists currently writing about EMU should keep this in mind:

Every columnist needs a good half dozen hobby horses. But do not ride them to death. Once you have sounded off again about, say, Euro Bureaucracy, leave the subject alone for at least six months...

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