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Lesley Riddoch: Jade's legacy: a society that can no longer care

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Published Date: 23 March 2009
JADE Goody is dead and the celebrity culture that created her public persona is already in overdrive. Tabloid and magazine coverage of her funeral will be as prurient, intrusive and watched as Princess Diana's demise.
Jade's children have already become public property with past treatment of Wills and Harry held up as the template for permissible media intrusion.

The father, widower and grandmother – it's up to them. How they play it will guide the media. So sa...



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  • Last Updated: 22 March 2009 9:44 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Lesley Riddoch
 
1

The Ayrshire Bard,

23/03/2009 11:29:13
Ok, thr girl's dead, but she was far from being a shining role model in her short life.
As for Gordon Brown's tribute to her....enough said!
2

Gdgy,

23/03/2009 11:53:19
Utter hypocrisy....most of us didn't care what she did and for a journalist writing about her death to suggest that she does or that she isn't jumping the same PR bandwagon that Goody herself tried to harness is utter cant...
3

Thrawn,

UK 23/03/2009 14:23:53
Isn't Leslie Riddoch herself part of the celebrity culture, Scotland's Polly Tonybee?

Are the thinking classes really interested in the late Ms Goody, whose short life did at least draw the public's attention to cervical cancer and raise an awareness of early testing?

It is right, though, to sympathise with her sons, husband and parents for a life cut short. However, for the PM to involve himself personally smacks somewhat of opportunism.
4

Scimitar1,

23/03/2009 23:46:52
She died the way she lived - without a shred of dignity.

 

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