Guardian Fails to Pay Blogger Attacking Unpaid Internships
Good on the Guardian for joining the fight against unpaid internships by publishing a blog post by student Libby Page last month. Libby bravely told how:
“A big step for me was finding the confidence to value myself enough to warrant a wage. Although we all feel grateful for experiences gained within companies, we shouldn’t underestimate the work we do there, or what we have to offer.”
Quite right too. Of course the Guardian would certainly be paying Libby for her work, wouldn’t they? Surely they could not be so cynical as to run a blog by a student attacking unpaid work and then not pay her? Alas not. Press Gazette reports that Libby was in fact not paid a penny by the Guardian for her piece, as she revealed on Twitter:
@wturvill @PrivateEyeNews Sadly no. Unpaid articles in my spare time whilst I build my portfolio is different to working set hours for free—
Libby Page (@LibbyLovePink) January 10, 2013
Money for nothing and your chicks for free.
FFS Guido no one gives a shit about spotty yoofs on job experience in the world of politics. It’s not as if they actually do any hard work or their lives are at risk and they look foreward to the life of riley sucking off the public teet.
What’s more no one is forcing them to do it. Sometimes, many times in life we all do things without payment realising this may get us promotion, a foot on the ladder or open a door.
Now stop worrying about young guys and gals having a jolly good time and concentrate on things that matter.
Thanks Ed, is it common practice within Labour HQ as well ?
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Modern slavery then. Why do the tree huggers still buy this rag?
They don’t.
That’s why it’s hemorrhaging cash.
Breaking news!!!
Government plans to re introduce chimneys to all new houses being built.
This will create 4,377 new jobs for school leavers.
But legislation will be set before the house to ensure that no soot is permitted to be black in order not to offend racial sensibilities…
WE set the rules. Just sit still and we’ll get back to with a Directive.
What? Can you still breath? My mistake. Let me move my arse…
Nom nom nom mmm
Why would the Guardian pay her? They need all their cash to pay fat Polly
Mum!
Yet another warning today about what will happen if we leave the EU.
This time the warning comes from the aviation industry.
No planes will be allowed to land here any more from any where in the world. This will really cut us off trade wise, and we really can’t allow this to happen.
It’s dreadful, life as we know it in the UK is really at stake. A return to the start of the 20th century living standards is forecast too. How can we let this happen? All the rich will leave and so will all the companies too. We will be left with nothing and have to go cap in hand to the IMF and previous Commonwealth countries to beg for help.
So let’s make sure there is no referendum or talk of renegotiation or exit of the EU.
Next they will tell us that if we leave the EU our first born sons will die and the rivers will run red with blood.
Or life will go on as normal, but we get to keep the payments we make to the EU. Whatever.
Does Guido pay his interns in vodka?
Have you seen him recently
Pies / cakes / butter / lard in payment
They could have chucked her £100 for her trouble.
The difference between losing £50,000,000 and £50,000,100 per year is not that great, surely.
How about Polly forfeiting one months pay to cover 1000 articles by budding journalists, who might actually have some merit?
NOT IN CASH THOUGH, THAT WOULD BE DISGUSTING
The Daily Mong, Daily Wan*kpress and Telegraph will be wa*nking themselves off vigorously this morning
“””The first official painting of the Duchess of Cambridge has been unveiled””””
Better than a five fingered shuffle to the words of Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, I suppose…
(…and yes, it is on my shelves!)
“””The first official painting of the Duchess of Cambridge has been unveiled””””
errrrrrrrr that I helped PAY for !!!!!!!!
I sincerely doubt that you help to pay for anything. You are an oxygen thief and therefore a drain on society.
Sorry Moussa, old bean.
Which day was it in your life that you did some work and pay some tax. We can get it declared a public holiday…
Feck Off Ex Pat…..Nothing for you to see here !!!!!
Now now. Calm down. You’ll get ulcers.
Then you will be sent for corrective treatment to the NHS…
LOL….and you can fly back to get NHS treatment….when no longer entitled
Not him me.
5 days over Xmas as a guest of the NHS ( no real complaints )
No thanks!
You may not want to come out afterwards – but I do…
@Moussa
Previous remark meant for you and not AM.
I’m not entitled? Of course I’m not. I only paid higher-rate taxes for over four decades so I would not be, wood eye? What is more, I was not born in P@kistan so I am ruled out on two counts.
…in New Zealand?
Is This?
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Imagine being fucked by this one, not a pleasant thought:
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Oh, nearly forgot, millions were!
Can ya tell what it is yet?
A new Superjail?
Why is Liam Fox opposed to gay marriage? Does Adam Werrity know about this?
Nope.
People aren’t against 2 adults forming a union with all the legal entitlement of marriage, they’re just against changing the meaning of words and the state interfering in private religious matters. As for what Mr Werrity knows, I cannot say unfortunately.
“As for what Mr Werrity knows, I cannot say unfortunately.”
The connection between your speech impediment & Mr.Werrity’s knowledge escapes my understanding.
However, the impediment can be cured without recourse to the NHS by placing a comma between the words “say” & “unfortunately”.
Guido’s obsession with interns, specifically those at companies, organisations or publications he doesn’t like , is becoming wearisome.
Someone gaining a few weeks or months experience as an unpaid Intern isn’t that big a deal. If they get some travel expenses, and the odd lunch – seems perfectly OK to me.
BUT – and here is the problem. Guido isn’t concerned about internships…He is only obsessed with interns at the Guardian, which is another issue, and something he may need to bring up at his next therapy session.
PS Gideon Osborne WAS an intern for the GW Bush Election campaign in 1999…FACT.
Do you understand hypocrisy?
Guido, you may know this. Based on current trends, how long will it take The Guardian to go bust? Should be not have some sort of doomsday Guardian clock?
ALL UK Newspapers will be gone…..within 10 years.
Here’s hoping you’ll be gone too….and before ten years have elapsed.
I think they will be de-facto digital only by 2015.
They may maintain a token print presence so they can continue to call themselves a ‘newspaper’.
I wont allow The Guardian to go bust, in 2008 i had the Treasury set aside millions to give to the BBC, so they can buy more copies. Consider it backdoor nationalisation. I have the people of Britain at heart, as always. See you next year! (maybe)
Don’t believe what you read in the papers our car industry is alive and well
Journalism has an associated glamour. The reason they can get away with not paying interns is that there’s an inexhaustible supply of wannabes willing to work for free for a sniff at landing their dream job. The problem is that it’s not a difficult job. Anyone with a moderate level of intelligence and education can churn out articles. I’m doing it now with this post. With absolutely no training or experience I can write as well as most journalists. It’s easy!
Of course “real” journalism actually involving some leg-work, interviewing people, uncovering stories people don’t want to get out, or covering nasty conflicts at considerable personal risk, is hard. But that’s not what fills the papers. It’s trivial articles on various annoyances or iniquities of modern life. Happily these require no research, just a sense of grievance.
If you offered graduate jobs in, say, agricultural machinery, textile manufacturing, quantity surveying etc you don’t get thousands of dreamy-eyes idealists applying. Anyone with sufficient interest in working in those fields can probably land a job. Until journalism loses this perception of glamour interns will continue to be exploited.
Why would an intern want to work for a paper that no-one reads?
I read somewhere that in spite of recent boasts and taunts Guido interns do not in fact receive minimum wage. Surely this is a vile smear?
Fucking socialist rag not even paying the minimum wage
the utter fucking hypocrites
may their toast always fall butter side down