Isn't Private Eye's Lunchtime O'Booze just such a one?
Fiona
> I'm sure we could dredge up some suitable stereotypes of journalists
> by way of riposte....
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah Humphrey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 13:02
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> Subject: Headhuntng for the Commons
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> From the "Pandora" column (p. 8) in today's Independent: (and we are
> still not free of the stereoptypical image of the librarian it seems,
> judging by the closing comment)
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> "A bigger packet
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> Incredible to report that a firm of headhunters has been employed to
> find a new Librarian for the House of Commons - on a salary of between
> £72 000 and £ 117 000 p.a. 'That's a truly staggering amount, and
> what's more, it's £20 000 more than an MP gets', notes one
> backbencher. 'It's amazing quite how many people in this place are
> paid more than us.' The post was advertised in the Financial Times
> this week. So why does it command such a whopping pay packet?
> 'Although it's called Librarian, it represents one of the biggest
> functions in the House,' says a Commons spokesman, when Pandora calls.
> Not just stamping books and saying 'Shhh!' then."
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