Special tribute issue
Oops, the Sun accidentally left off this item from its 16-page pullout tribute to Jade Goody. It's from the Sun, July 3, 2002. Bizarre columnist Dominic Mohan, wrote: "The pig with the biggest mouth on TV has finally been nominated for eviction and now YOU have the power to roast her ... She doesn't deserve to win the £70,000 prize and you can help stop her getting her trotters on it." Brave Jade, eh?
posted by Andrew Collins @ 12:33 PM
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Great journalism wasn't it. Show a picture of anyone yawning and they're unlikely to look sophisticated and classy.
Then again, the people in the BB house know what they're getting into (at least they have since series one). That doesn't make it right, but it does give the atrocious tabloid press some form of excuse.
Whatever happened to Dominic Mohan?
Chris Moyles used to call him Dominic Duvet.
The Sun, like most of the tabloid press, would happily say the same thing again if they thought it would sell more papers.
Thank God for you Andrew, a sane voice among the Jaderati seeing this farce for what it is. Don't forget to add Carol Malone to your list of hypocrites either.
And now, the funeral, followed by Jack: Life after Jade, the launch for the inevitable Jade Foundation, then 'Jack: Six months on and learning to love again'. And so it goes on.
And before anyone calls me cruel and heartless, it's always very sad when a young woman with her life in front of her dies, and yes it's awful for her boys, but she is not Princess Diana no matter what Stephen Fry might say.
My blog today is about crisps. It's a Jade-free zone.
I thought The Sun was only distributed for wrapping chips in? Oooh saying that has just made me hungry.
O.K, so Jade didn't have any talent in any true sense of the word but how many people could turn public opinion around so drastically in a few short years? She had something, even if we still can't quite work out what it was.
Claire
The BBC website has a page which documents the whole BB racism row in quotes from the time. The Sun's editorial, which appeared on Sat. 20th Jan. '07 reads as follows:
The Sun newspaper editorial: "Jade Goody went into the Big Brother house appearing to be simply a fun-loving working-class girl canny enough to have made millions from her 15 minutes of fame. It was all a meticulously manufactured lie.
"She has left the house with her true personality laid bare - a vile, pig-ignorant, racist bully consumed by envy of a woman of superior intelligence, beauty and class."
I suspect none of those words were re-used in todays tribute issue.
"she is not Princess Diana no matter what Stephen Fry might say"
But then I'm not sure Princess Diana was Princess Diana either.
@Claire - A publicity machine? Glib of me I know, but true.
The media's handling of Jade's illness and death has made me very uncomfortable, and Andrew's post from yesterday is closest yet to what I haven't quite been able to put into words about the whole thing. Over the past weeks, I've tried a few times to reply to the thread at NotBBC, but always deleted anything I'd typed without posting it, as however I worded it, it still seemed a bit insensitive. I didn't want to come across as criticising Jade or her family, as they have every right to sell their stories for all they can get. I'd have done the same if I could. Yet I find our human desire to watch and buy every detail genuinely disturbing, and I'm no exception. After all, I was just as guilty as anyone of clicking on the Jade-tagged stories about *absolutely nothing* on Yahoo News without really knowing why I'd done so. I eventually put a brief reply on the NotBBC thread today, not that my opinion matters in the grand scheme of things, but I felt the overwhelming need to purge my thoughts on this somewhere:
http://www.notbbc.co.uk/forums/pg=print_mess&f=news&id=34842&sno=0
my blurred memories of the week before diana died there were pictures of her on a yacht with dodi wearing a leopard print bikini
in the papers taken by peeping tom paps, with headlines like 'look at the slag' not exactly complimentary anyway... before they all u-turned on a sixpence faster than a speeding drunk chauffeur.
Jade unbeknowlingly gave us a revealing glimpse of our media showing its true ugly hippocritical face. its collective conscience and ethics, vastly overshadowed by hollow manipulative greed.
Richard Herring pretty much summed up my thoughts ::
It is of course terribly sad and tragic and unfair that she has died, yet the hysterical and hypocritical reaction of the press which once or twice in the past have pretty much called for her piggy head to be stuck up on a spike, is something to behold.
On one hand it is ludicrous to compare her to Princess Diana and yet on the other there is probably no more apt parallel. They were both vilified by the media that they openly courted and both might end up practically canonised in death.
I know what you are saying Juliet and Max Clifford is a household name but would Kerry Katona dying have the same effect? Not that I am suggesting anything!
Claire
Apparently OK pushed one of their journalists in front of bus to secure an exclusive interview with Jade as she settles into the afterlife.
I never cared for her, but I fail to see how pointing accusatory fingers at other peoples' hypocrisy serves any real purpose.
Of course the tabloids called her names - that's what tabloids do. Why prolong the voyeurism beyond her death? The girl wasn't special in any way we ought to value, and her death wasn't at all out of the ordinary. That certain aspects of the media seek to shamelessly profit from her death (in exactly the way they profited from her life) is merely the way of the world, and making sneering comments on this fact is just an extension of the same thing.
She's dead - move on.
Out of fear of having anything to do with any foul media climate, I have no opinion on this post.
In fact - I don't even know what it's about.
*looks blank*
Ahh so you have your own blog do you Mr 5 Centres (I've no way of knowing but you are obviously a bloke)?
Be a good man and point me at the entry where you acknowledge your part in the current financial crisis because of your failure to admit I was right and you were wrong. Gordon Brown has nothing to apologise for but you do, so hop to it.
You need to draw a line under this whole sorry mess so the economy can heal and you and I can move on with our lives.
And don't fob me off with another cheeky post from 'Mrs Oldnathan' either.
Emperor Bish - I happen to like accusatory fingers and sneering comments.
*sneers*
If the gutter press were really best mates with their readers - and not in fact their worst enemy - they would stop hindering them from learning the truth about absolutely everything in the world. Finding the truth requires honest, deep thought but obviously the gutter press care not about the truth or their readers. A thought for the day there.
you can't bring that up! don't you know that "journalists" can't remember 2 days ago!! never mind 8 years!! very unfair. :)
on a serious note - is there a better demonstration of tabloid hypocrisy?
if only they knew then how much money they could milk from stories about this backward woman.
... to quote bette davis when she was rebuked for criticising joan crawford
"Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed!"
Anyone seen the front page of The Sun today?
Jesus wept...
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