Rita’s not typical
To be sure, the author may well have been the target of one or two vulgar paparazzi, and we now know of the various nasties involved at some of Murdoch’s titles.
But surely Ms Rowling owes not a little of her success to publicity of the right sort. I, like many I suspect, had not heard of the Potter series before reading a review in our own dear Scotsman.
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Hide AdI may be lucky – and I’m no-one famous – but the journalists I have had dealings with have always been respectful and polite, and I have never been misquoted by them.
It’s a pity if Rowling’s character Rita is regarded as typical of the profession when I suspect such individuals represent a tiny minority.
(Dr) Mary Brown
Dalvenie Road
Banchory