Allan Sloan

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

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Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

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People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.

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