Collins Outlines the Columnist’s Credo

November 19, 2009
 

Gail Collins owns up to a writer’s truth today:

I have never believed that everything happens for a reason. But I do feel very strongly that everything happens so that it can be turned into a column.

The rest–which has to do with the current mammogram controversy–is here.

Greg Marx is an associate editor at CJR. Follow him on Twitter @gregamarx.