When the "guest columns" started on Mondays, I wondered how freewheeling this was going to be, or how they were going to decide who gets to be a guest columnist. So far, of the ones I've looked at, there's always been a contact email, website, or company name at the end, identifying the guest columnists as someone who has a business or works for a non-profit -- in otherwords, has something to sell.
That makes me wonder if this is actually space for hire disguised as news.
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My paternal grandmother wrote rather turgid inspirational verse to fill out column ends for newspapers in the Pacific Northwest from about 1900 - 1935. She had over two thousand poems published. My poetical friends would kill to have such a record.
Should we fill the papers with stuff like that? Does it matter?
I'd rather read heartfelt columns from people who don't also, coincidentally, own businesses.
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