Columnist reading

After going through the list of columnists and reading through a few of their columns, I discovered that I really enjoyed reading those by Maureen Dowd at "The New York Times."

Her writing style is such that it grabs one's attention quickly with a short line of something quirky (if her column is more personal) or of something that with which one quickly agrees or disagrees (if her column is about current issues.) Sometimes, she opens her columns with a short anecdotal story that leads in to her topic, such as the column "Pass the Caribou Stew," where she criticizes former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for the style used to obtain good public opinion by starring in a reality television show.

Throughout both her more personal columns and political columns, Dowd tries to engage the reader and uses language simple enough for anyone to understand and also throws in a satirical line or two every other paragraph or so to keep the topic in perspective and to give the reader a sense of her opinion, which gives a sense of the columnist's character.