Look out for Clown burying bad news....

Austin_Allegro

Pobby wrote: »

My thoughts are with Jades family right now. I know that she was happy to have a " media " death to provide for her kids but the whole idea of magazines, over recent weeks, front paging Jades decline, is, to me, sickening.

What kind of person would be tempted to buy a rag that profiteered from a 27 year old mothers death? I find it all very saddening and an indication of the " nasty " society we have become.

I did wonder briefly if the passing of Jade Goody combined with the economic situation might make the British hoi-polloi feel a little little ashamed of the excesses of the last decade, but I doubt it. It's more likely she'll be turned into a sort of cut-price Princess Diana.

This kind of thing has always been around though. In the 18th century there was a huge trade in 'repentances'; eg, the confessions of criminals about to be hanged. Hack journalists basically just made them up, the more lurid the better.