Setting aside that incredibly weighted analogy...
I think that's exactly what Drethelin meant when s/he said "semi-accurate". The point is that all Skeeter did was make up gossip and at the end of the day that's not that bad. If you can point to an actual instance of someone dying or coming to great harm that stemmed from a Skeeter article, then... you can think of ONE bad thing she did. And your proposed solution is to kill her?
Hermione solves the Skeeter problem in Canon without shedding any blood, and even she goes overboard on the justice by trapping the woman inside a glass jar for hours/days. I can think of plenty of ways to stifle Skeeter without even using teleportation or invisibility or time travel - imagine what a mighty wizard like Quirrel could do. Quirrel even says that he's going to crush her (turns out he meant that literally) just for the sheer enjoyment of it, and not because it's what she deserves.
I just think that the people who support killing Rita Skeeter probably decided that it was a good idea because they hated her, and then cast around for justifications that sounded better than that.
If you can point to an actual instance of someone dying or coming to great harm that stemmed from a Skeeter article, then... you can think of ONE bad thing she did.
If you dredged through canon, you would probably only come up with 20-30 deaths unequivocally and specifically at Voldemort's hand as opposed to random Death Eaters, mysterious deaths, deaths inferred but not actually known to have been Voldemort's doing, general carnage implied but not stated etc. Maybe he's not such a bad guy after all!
Demanding specific incidents is like demanding specific...
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