Someone needs to ask him, then, if he wrote anything that he does not believe.
If he wrote his true beliefs, then that's what we get anyway.
One issue for me is "how do columnists normally get paid?" If the newspapers/media outlets are paying them, how do we EVER know we're not getting opinions slanted or softened to get past the papers' gatekeepers.
For example, you recall that someone (NYT) refused to run articles they'd commissioned Ann Coulter to write. I'm assuming they contacted her ahead of time...in other words, gave her chance to make changes that would bring the payday that had been promised.
I'm struggling to find what Williams has done that's abnormal in that world.....'cause Coulter appears to be one of the few to bring light on what they have to do to get their articles published.
If he wrote his true beliefs, then that's what we get anyway.
Chicken or the egg. Does he believe it because he's getting paid, or is he getting paid because he believes it?
[shrug]Contrary to some of the whiners here, there IS a need for columnists to be above board here -- if for the ability to be able to criticize the hand that feeds it (as it were), if nothing else.
The implication with someone who is paid and does not disclose is that they are an extension of the paying body, as opposed to an independent voice who has come to the same (or similar) conclusion.