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Pete Hamill on columnists vs. bloggers: “I was a columnist in a period of [Jimmy] Breslin and Mike Royko and others, and we came from a tradition where we were paid to have opinions, but the opinions were based on the reporting. We had been there, whether it was Vietnam, or Northern Ireland, or the wrong part of town. Now, to me, there’s too many columns that are just based on reading The Washington Post that morning — and not going anywhere — and they have a different texture. Doesn’t mean they’re not good, but they have a different sense, a different feel to them.”](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkqdcsnG1h1qd9dz2o1_500.jpg)
Pete Hamill on columnists vs. bloggers: “I was a columnist in a period of [Jimmy] Breslin and Mike Royko and others, and we came from a tradition where we were paid to have opinions, but the opinions were based on the reporting. We had been there, whether it was Vietnam, or Northern Ireland, or the wrong part of town. Now, to me, there’s too many columns that are just based on reading The Washington Post that morning — and not going anywhere — and they have a different texture. Doesn’t mean they’re not good, but they have a different sense, a different feel to them.”
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