Nov. 17th, 2003

resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
Needed: Some discussion on the personalities of British news/entertainment publications.

You know how the New York Times is a middle-aged, well-educated white guy in a suit who votes Democrat, and the New Yorker is the same guy only he's gay and probably Jewish, and the Wall Street Journal is the same guy only his suit's more expensive and he votes republican?

And Ladies Home Journal is a frumpy middle-aged woman with a teddy bear embroidered on her sweatshirt, sniffling over a sad story of a cute preschooler overcoming some tragic diseease?

Whereas Cosmopolitan is a woman poured into clothes seven years too young for her (which is fine, because she claims to be seven years younger than she is), cackling over the tale of some other woman who slept with her boss until he promoted her, then took dramatic and hideous revenge on his wife for calling her a bitch at the company Christmas party?

What I need is that kind of profile on some British publications. Newspapers, magazines. High-profile TV and radio shows would be fine, too.

(This is for a HP story, in case you're wondering.)
resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
Wow. Lots of people had lots of extremely interesting input on the British press (and TV). I really appreciate everyone's help.

What I'm trying to do here is this. I've got a postwar story in progress, and I want to show one of the survivors being deluged with reporters demanding interviews. And I don't want to use the Daily Prophet or Witch Weekly or the Quibbler or whatever other canonical media there are, because i'm bored with those; I want to make up my own.

Now, if I had to make up an American newspaper or magazine, and create a plausible characterization for a reporter from it, that would be a breeze. But I'm totally flailing around in the deep water when it comes to the media of other countries.

That's why I was talking about personalities before; I thought if I could get snapshots of the "characterization" of some actual Brit media, I'd be able to come up with some of my own that would fit the pattern.

Still eager for more input, if anyone cares to offer any.

[edited to add] I'd be especially interested in a two-sentence personality profile of any high-profile publications/news shows aimed at people of Indian/Pakistani/etc. ancestry in Britain. Seems reasonable that there'd be a counterpart for wizards.

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