Okay so!

James has had the lovely idea of funding and publishing a newspaper in opposition to the Prophet. It'd be vaguely pro-purist and anti-muggle culture but not overtly so and would report on things with a pro-wizarding bias.

Problem is, he needs writers. He'll write some of the articles of course but he needs others to write so as no to tarnish his [already suspect] good name. Basically, he's looking to fund and publish a newspaper but also to write some articles under a pseudonym.

anyone interested?

I LOVE this idea. I'm going to add it to jobs/character opportunities in the character sign-up threads so new members see it. Would you like the newspaper to be set up like the DP, because I could add it to the sidebar and all that jazz?

Sometime soon we should thread something with James and Carmen. It would be hilarious to see how she handles competition. They could threaten to uncover each other's dark secrets or something. :lol:

Ooh, that idea with the sidebar would be great! Easy, too, because then I wouldn't forget about it xD.

and we really should thread something with them. Dark secrets, shady love affairs, [literal or literary] skeletons in the closet... you name it!

It'd be fun, I think.

That is a great idea! Kudos, dude. I want to be involved, if you'll have me.

Hell, Cal would write for that. Probably rather obscure stuff (publishes some theoretical pieces, right?), and he'd have to keep from revealing that he was a Squib, but he'd have a hell of a lot of fun writing from several different perspectives (you know, sowing confusion--he actually really enjoys mocking Muggles/Muggle culture)... I've already got a journalist writing for the Prophet, Sebastian Kent. He's half-blood and very pro-Muggle, so he might join in the battle somehow.

<3 journalism.

But I do have a question--what sort of articles might it publish? I could write, as I said, theory--write about the economics of Muggle as opposed to Wizarding cultures (actually really interesting to contemplate the exchange rate of Galleons/dollars--OK, no one else cares.. that might be for the Prophet)--or... hm. Angry editorials for the Magic Mirror (is that its name?). But what sorts of articles are you looking for?

Any sort of article would be good - pro-wizard spins on Prophet articles, opinion pieces on how the muggles are taking over, stuff like that.

Maybe some investigative journalism, some articles about the Ministry's incompetence... just average newpapery stuff but stuff that the Prophet doesn't or won't print.

Such as um maybe there's a pro-muggle bias at Hogwarts and wizarding children are losing out on something? Just stuff like that, really.

And yeah, it's called The Magic Mirror.

I created Wesley specifically to write for this paper.

Wesley is pureblood and the family is decently respectable (or was, until Wesley's father ran off to America and never came back), but Wes is not at all concerned with the blood issue. He's too self-centered for that. His only concern is life is having fun.

He's a pretty well-known freelance journalist, so really he just writes and then sells his work to the highest bidder, but I imagine he'll really get a kick out of The Magic Mirror when it starts being printed and want to write for it. Of course, his articles will mostly be pro-wizard on the surface while actually poking fun at them, because Wesley would find that hilarious.

Wesley also does things without bothering himself about the consequences, so I'd love it if his writing got him into some trouble he couldn't talk his way out of.

(PS this is Spiv. <3)

Ah, sweet. Interest! And it's great that James has a respectable pureblood writer because, er, his family isn't exactly the most popular thing since house elves [what with his father's debts alienating most of his colleagues and blah blah blah house and vault held in trust by Gringotts et cetera].

I'm thinking Wes and James would get along fairly well [especially if Wes provides articles for him] so that's good. He'd be a bit baffled by the "not thinking about consequences" thing, though, which could make for some amusing "look could you please edit this?" scenes.

but hooray interest!

Oh my god, I can't believe I haven't posted here yet! *slaps self* ... And I created Mont with the Mirror in mind (haha... alliteration...)! Bad me! Bad, bad, bad me!

So yeah... Mont writes for the prophet and, strictly speaking, he's not supposed to be writing for other papers, but he's got this thing, see... He likes money, and he likes writing objectionably, so I think the mirror would very much appeal to him even though he's actually not huge on the whole purism thing. He's got a very political background and loves fact spinning and clever, memorable turns of phrase, so he'd gladly write the MM some good old fashioned propaganda.