She was also named the most influential columnist in the UK.

Lippmann, perhaps the most influential columnist in the country at the time, was even more disparaging.

Hedda Hopper, the influential columnist, endorsed an industrywide oath, adding that "those who aren't loyal should be put in concentration camps before it's too late."

But political analysts often seem to view the comics as rollicking successors to the late Walter Lippman, the influential columnist.

During the 1990s and later Jovanovic, as well as the influential columnist for the daily newspaper Pobjeda, pleiad young Montenegrin writers.

During her career at The Globe and Mail, she was known as Canada's most influential social columnist.

By 1972, Max Solivén was one of the two most influential columnists at the Manila Times.

"He found that radicalism is not the way to solve problems," said Fehmi Koru, an influential columnist and Muslim intellectual.

But it was always assumed in political circles that if he were elected President, Mr. Bush would reconcile with the influential columnist.

Nahum Barnea, Israel's most influential columnist, was less sanguine.