![]() ![]() ![]() And they said, ‘Come on – give us that great industrial stuff you gave the Mirror!’ And he said, ‘Oh that’s not me, it’s so and so – we just happen to have the same name.’ So the fact that William Boot, the man who writes the nature note, ends up as a war correspondent is very amusing to me.” Read more. But then they looked up one day and he was just sitting at his desk, staring into space. So they took this chap out and they wined and they dined him – and they gave him a good salary and signed his contract to the end of time. There was this industrial reporter on the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express was desperate to get him. It was actually before I moved to Fleet Street, when I was on the Scottish Daily Express. They do make various mistakes like employing the wrong person. Then I found it wasn’t that far from the truth. Before I worked for the Daily Express I thought Scoop was a marvellous work of fiction. Character Inspiration for character Television portrayals Use as a pseudonym External links References Boot is the young author of a regular column on country life for a London newspaper named the Daily Beast. “Before I worked for the Daily Express I thought Scoop was a marvellous work of fiction. William Boot William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel Scoop. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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