Article: It's never just a free lunch; Journalists' perks are usually just bribes, writes Greg Dardagan.(News)

Article: No free lunch for journalists - and not much ...
Nieman Reports;  March 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... on them." Now think about newspaper journalists. Aren't they also appreciated? Don ... biggest pay--$41,183--while journalists will be offered the lowest starting ... pretty well against inflation, but journalists languished. Worst off were reporters ...

Article: Media: No such thing as a free lunch Should ...
The Independent - London;  December 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... written or unwritten, about journalists accepting hospitality were ... this leave me? "British journalists have always been rather relaxed ... to various pressures. "Journalists and their contacts do buy ... difficult to justify. Every journalist has to ask himself or herself ...

Article: Free lunch? What a truly capital idea
The Nelson Mail;  March 16, 2002 ;     698 words ... ... voices in the form of journalists and spokespeople and ... be for the invited journalists to mercilessly attack ... then there was a free lunch. We were herded into ... relax. The NZ Herald journalist spent most of the time ... accommodate cocktails. Being journalists, we were torn between ...

Article: Perspective: My ordeal of fire and ice for another free ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  October 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... conditions and, in the case of journalists, having to work with journalists. Become a rock star and ... perverted imagination. We journalists, on the other hand, have ... There's no such thing as a free lunch, as the old saying still ...

Article: There's no such thing as a free lunch--or pen, or ...
Nursing Standard;  June 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... old adage 'there is no such thing as a free lunch' first appeared in print in a book called ... pithy old saws go 'no such thing as a free lunch' has more going for it than all that ... one up Daniel Allen RMN is a freelance journalist

Article: For the Middle Class, a `Free Lunch' of Baloney
The Washington Post;  November 11, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... stand in the way of the politicians and journalists who make it their business to tell us ... the Capitol and White House, and the journalists, who joined the Establishment a generation ... there really is both a Santa Claus and a free lunch. Ours has become a culture in which ...

Article: No Free Lunch - Small Steps to Development in ...
World and I;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... feed and educate its people. Ten years ago, a Bangladeshi journalist in Dhaka, the nation's capital, told me of a project that ... without resources they could do little. "But this is no free lunch," he says. "We're not giving out charity." Though ...