Advice column
An advice column is a column in a question and answer format. Usually, a reader writes to the media outlet with a problem in the form of a question. The media outlet gives an answer or response. The responses are written by an advice columnist.[1][2] An advice columnist is someone who gives advice to people who send in problems to the media outlet.
The Athenian Mercury had the first known advice column in 1690.[3]
Advice Column Media
The March 1990 edition of "Ask Dr. Goff", a medical advice column published in State Magazine
Header of a 1913 advice column.Text reads:*All Marriage Is a Leap Into the Dark. Marrying a Person You Never Have Seen Is No More Risky Than the Chances We All Take in Picking a Husband or Wife, Says Dorothy Dix; Golden Rule? There Is None.
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References
- ↑ "What Would Eleanor Do? 'If You Ask Me' Revisits Roosevelt's Advice Columns" (in en). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2018/10/17/658113308/what-would-eleanor-do-if-you-ask-me-revisits-roosevelts-advice-columns. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ↑ "'If You Ask Me' is a delightful compendium of the thoughts of Eleanor Roosevelt". Christian Science Monitor. 2018-10-10. . https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2018/1010/If-You-Ask-Me-is-a-delightful-compendium-of-the-thoughts-of-Eleanor-Roosevelt. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ↑ Gudelunas, David (2008). Confidential to America. Transaction Publishers. pp. 21–195. ISBN 9781138508439.
