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Does Mark Ellen get paid for this?
Posted by magneticfields on 14 October 2009 - 9:29pm.
In The Guardian's Diary column today the final item is a direct *borrowing* from ME's column in this month's magazine:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/14/samantha-cameron-legg-pur...
I don't know anything about this area, but does Mark get paid anything for this? It's not even as though he's used it as the jumping off point for an article, which might justify such a lengthy quote, or are journalists free to take long quotes from other writers to fill up their column?
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A newspaper diary
is supposed to be full of amusing insider gossip, so it's not as if Mark's remarks were even suitable for a diary. Very bizarre - did he just run out of material?
The Guardian diary hasn't been the same since Marina Hyde stopped writing it.
Shouldn't think he's too disappointed...
A free plug for your magazine and a link - it's not to be sniffed at.