Money for this....

I emailed over to a new journalist contact, some fun copy for their diary page...something that I did regularly for their predecessor......quite surprised to get a reply asking if I had been paid for previous submissions (no!). Got me thinking, either I could have made enough money to buy at least half a pint of shandy from all this activity (have you seen copy rates...and no its not £1 a word!) but then I wondered if the new journalist's predecessor was submitting accounts for money never paid...possibly not but may be there are a few Spanish practices that even Rupert Murdoch didn't quite trample on......The new Telegraph offices looks very impressive but I wonder how long before someone runs amock in the news room...its like an enormous goldfish tank, laden with CCTV...no doubt they are all being 'observed'...bit like the Mail!