How much compensation should be paid to a journalist who is insulted by comment is free readers over his beard? The Guardian decided on the princely sum of £75.
Well, there are two meanings (at least) to the word "compensation". One is the payment you get for a piece of work. Another is, as you say here, compensation for being insulted.
I heard about this today from Paul’s daughter Rebecca who I met a Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce
networking breakfast in Newmarket. We had a really good giggle about
it, she described the payment as “compensation” and told me her father
was still very easy going, so I can’t imagine he made a fuss about it.
The thing is, the standard payment, or compensation, to a writer of a piece at comment is free is £75.
So I think there might be just a tad of confusion here about which meaning of the word "compensation" was meant.
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