Many people think journalists are overpaid. The problem is that they don’t see how much work we do behind the scenes, as it were. I’ve been working very hard today reading a press release about a new report.
It asks some interesting questions. Hard questions. Questions that need answering. The report apparently answers these questions in [...]
Just a quickie to say thanks for all the comments so far. I will get to them individually later, but the deadlines are stacked here like planes at Heathrow. And to clarify the clarification (this may never end!), I stand by what I said originally, but very happy to tease out a more nuanced understanding [...]
To clarify - I didn’t criticise the book because Twenty is a blogger or because I wanted to get one up on anyone (don’t really see how that would work) or because I wanted to make a name for myself (better and more hideously embarrassing ways of doing that, were I so inclined).
I criticised it [...]
March 2nd, 2008
Thirty-five cents won’t buy you much these days. A few loose envelopes maybe, but not the price of posting them. An extra few minutes parking, but not the minimum amount for the meter. If you dropped 35c, would you bother to pick it up?
A measly 35c was the difference in price between Dunnes [...]
Culture, Mar 2nd, 2008
It should have been a vindication of sorts, an affirmation that the fledgling medium of blogging had grown up enough to warrant something as old-fashioned as a book deal. Not that Twenty Major’s royalties advance was a record-breaker: at four figures, it represents a low-stakes bet by the publishers Hodder Headline.
Twenty Major [...]
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