| With the mania surrounding the
latest Harry Potter book over, senior press sources in Scotland were in a state of panic
last night, faced with having to fill the white spaces in their papers with words. A senior editor explains:"The Harry Potter thing was a fuckin' godsend
to be honest. Not only could we do page after page of reportage on the build up to
publication but also managed to churn out dozens of features playing up the author's
admittedly tenuous links with Scotland."
Elsewhere, hard pressed photo editors admitted that they'd
miss the opportunity to fill up half a page with a sensitively lit study of the Potter
author looking pensive, not to say glum. |
One source told the JT, "Thank
Christ for all that Queen Mum at 100 bollocks. With any luck we can spin that shite out
for a couple of months." Last night,
editors around the country could only hope and pray that the leader of the SNP would
resign or something.....
Downing Street sources revealed last night that the
government's annual report, published early last week, was unlikely to match sales of the
latest Potter opus.
As of Friday, only one copy of the report had been bought -
by a Mr T. Blair of Islington. |
