Good While it Lasted

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 17 May 2006 at 11:24
Tags: Blogs, Journalism, Sunday Telegraph

Patience Wheatcroft’s campaign to eradicate all the innovations of her predecessor Sarah Sands appears to have claimed a victim in celebrated blogger Belle de Jour. The London call girl’s 15 May post says she has been stripped of her column in the Sunday Telegraph magazine:

In Memoriam,
My Column in the Sunday Telegraph

So. Farewell then
Regular column
Axed by new editress, Patience Wheatcroft.

It would seem that
I am not suitable for
Your esteemed organ.

As the old saying goes

‘Don’t like the Torygraph head?
Not to worry
Wait six months and it’ll change.

Update: Going rate for an ex-call-girl-blogger-columnist at a Sunday newspaper? £24,000, apparently. As BdJ today points out, that’s a grand short of the baseline income for a happy life, according to Wheatcroft herself.

Tags: Blogs, Journalism, Sunday Telegraph