Worst Editor Cliché I Know Of…
….and this is probably true for all of my fellow freelance journalists, too.
Here’s the cliché:
“Unfortunately, we do not have a very large freelance budget.”
So far, this phrase – only with slight variations – has been uttered by at least 4 out of 5 of all the hundreds of news paper, magazine, and radio show editors and producers that I have ever been in touch with during my ten years of freelancing.
That fifth person does not have to say it, because the status of their freelance budget is obviously clear anyway.
The first time I hear “We are so happy to work with freelancers and acknowledge that it’s best if they get paid well, so we actually have secured a quite large freelance budget – and we happily pay their expenses, too.” I will probably already have died and find myself in paradise.
/Gunilla
