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Miss Jane Begs for Money
The fund raising letter excerpted from the Politico article.The comments are pretty funny, too. The Miss Jane reference are a reference to the Beverly Hillbillies character Miss Jane Hathaway. Same haughtiness, same desperation, same deportment. $35 buys me dinner with a confidential source in New York Start slumming. One you will have to starve and meet at McDonalds. $1 value menu, remember? $75 pays for an interpreter for a reporter researching a story in Afghanistan. Tell the reporter to start learning a new foreign language. $150 covers an Amtrak ticket to Washington so a writer can testify before Congress Bus travel is pretty cheap these days, I hear. And Congress can't spring for per diem? $300 buys a labor reporter's ticket to Detroit for a piece on unemployment See above reference to a bus ticket. $500 (expenses extra) rewards a brilliant article by a young journalist on Tehran dissidents Times are lean. Bet he/she can take $250. Hell, I'd take $50 for a brilliant article. Posted by: badanov 2010-05-20 |
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