Rita Skeeter, the obnoxious reporter, who is always lying and than stretching the truth more than a little, is Fox News in Harry Potter's wizarding world.
Anybody else see this?
Anybody else see this?
As others have said, the actual inspiration for her was the British paparazzi.
Fox News' notoriety wasn't well-known in the UK at the time Rowling started writing HARRY POTTER and not until a few years ago, when some of the British cable and satellite networks started carrying it (possibly for comedy value) and British people started watching it in slack-jawed amazement at its total lack of objectivity.
Rita Skeeter=Fox News
- 05/01/2010 06:08:29 AM
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Nope
- 05/01/2010 08:03:11 AM
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I agree with you except on the etymology (and spelling) of paparazzi
- 05/01/2010 04:13:11 PM
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Thanks. Never realised the Fellini connection. *NM*
- 06/01/2010 01:26:27 PM
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Really? La Dolce Vita is a classic. Get it on Netflix or something. *NM*
- 08/01/2010 05:36:04 AM
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Not really - a) You could say that about any news agency and b) I think it's aimed more...
- 05/01/2010 05:30:01 PM
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In effect? Kind of.
- 05/01/2010 08:44:23 PM
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They are used to the BBC so it's a step up for them.
- 06/01/2010 01:23:53 PM
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+1000
- 08/01/2010 03:56:07 PM
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