Thursday, March 31, 2011

How to write a newspaper column

As he so often does, Garth George shows the way, shines a light, blazes a trail. His Herald column today begins:
Many a time since this column first appeared have I used as a last sentence, “We reap what we sow”.
See what he did there? He started his latest column by quoting the cliché he often uses to end his column. Brilliant. Bernard Levin never thought of that, did he.

Steve Braunias, Jim Hopkins, Kerre Woodham, Deborah Coddington, Joe Bennett – take note. This is how to do it.
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1 comment:

  1. Bill BennettApril 2, 2011 at 8:43 AM

    Many a time since this column first appeared have I used as a last sentence, “We reap what we sow”.

    What a horrible, torturous sentence.It reads like bad 19th century writing. Any sub-editor worth their salt would have fixed that in a jiffy.

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