Re: [HPforGrownups] Molly – Daily Prophet – Lockhart – Sirius’s non-trial

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 19616

At 06:09 PM 5/27/01 +0000, Amy Z wrote:
>Also, the issue has come up about how Rita Skeeter could be writing
>for the Prophet.  That assumes that the DP is like the Times (New
>York, LA, London, take your pick), but perhaps it's more like the NY
>Daily News-—a tabloid that is highly unreliable and sensationalistic
>but that is still the daily source of "straight news" for its
>readership.  I gather there are many such in London . . . or does
>nobody take them seriously?

Could the _Prophet_ be like the _Sun_, which I've heard was formerly
a respectable  journal but has gradually deteriorated into a tabloid?
(UK List members feel free to correct me if I've got my History of
British Muggle Journalism wrong...)



                         -- Dave