Paper Monitor
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The Guardian has a large blurb just below its masthead today.
Alongside a picture of author Hilary Mantel, it proclaims: "Exclusive interview with the Man Booker winner."
And indeed there is an in the paper's G2 tabloid.
It's a funny sort of exclusive, however, because she also appears today talking to the , the and the .
Yesterday she spoke to too.
Now, Paper Monitor admires Ms Mantel and is happy to see her quoted as widely as possible.
But this column values the integrity of the term "exclusive", and hopes the Guardian - normally more than happy to fling stones around the media greenhouse - will not be tempted to traduce it again.