No one has written in response to the "Linnaeus on the copy desk" posting to ask for a similar set of classifications of reporters and writers. Do I have to drop a hint with a clang?
Here's a start. What follows is a set of titles for categories of writers. Now comes audience participation! Interactivity! You do the work.
The Crown Prince and/or the Princess Royal
Mute Inglorious Milton
The Supreme Pontificator
Who Touched My Story
Mirror, Mirror
By the Word
High Camp
The Duckbilled Platitude
Columnist Party Apparatchik
Plain But Earnest
Goodbye English Prose
I have written entries for these categories, which are available to readers of this blog on request. But I’m reluctant to publish them, because I’d rather not have to pay someone to start my car for me every day.