Heather Brooke Quotes
I've written for 'The Times' because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The 'New Statesman' magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
Brooke, Heather. "Information wants to be paid for." The Guardian, 31 Aug. 2009.
Prince de Benévant. The king, notoriously tight with money, had come up with the idea of not paying any of the French Deputies, and minsters of state. The honor of being appointed and serving would be sufficient. The Prime Minister persuaded the king that the cost would be too high. Where government officials are ill paid, they tend to use their power corruptly to extract money from the public or those they are supposed to regulate. This is a major problem in underdeveloped countries and even in some local and state governments here in America.
This extreme position illustrates how a politician, trying to defend a particular position can get carried away and lose rational sense of balance. The air we breath is free and quite valuable—essential really. The exercise of most of our political rights is without charge. Legitimate religions do not require payment.
It is interesting to note that the First Lady described herself as a “poor scribe”. However, she wrote more columns over the years than any other journalist or columnist while doing everything else she did.
Advice to a Black female reporter she was mentoring when the woman asked her advice about what salary to ask for in a job discussion she was having with a newspaper which had recruited her
Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin and several MPs standing down in 2010 general election
