Rita Skeeter, the infamous yellow dirt-digging journalist of the Harry Potter books is a nuisance. Her questions are difficult, her methods are to use a pen that elaborates, exaggerates, and lies to make the story more disgusting and despicable.

While Deobrah Solomon of the New York Times does not lie, she does ask the most irritating questions to extremely well-known people; and it sometimes for tolerable interviews, like when the person is running for President and has no option but to submit to her catty demeanor and at other times they just dwindle into a fight.

Her weekly column in the NYTimes Magazine always made me feel uncomfortable and since finishing the latest Harry Potter; it reminded me that Rita Skeeters do exist in real life albeit they will most likely work for the National Enquirer, but I found one right here in the New York Times.

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