Jade Goody’s Words For Natasha Richardson
JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer with Michael White…
Jade Goody is dying and it’s is the media’s job to comment on it. Writing in the Guardian, Michael White criticises the mawkish tabloid coverage while playing a game of Tabloid Bingo!:
Under the headline: “Growing mood of public sentimentality worries me more than recession”
Different things trouble different people. I’m more worried by the recession and by global warming than by street crime, about which I can take sensible micro-precautions if I feel like it.
Tick. Tick. Tick. Eyes down.
Poor Natasha Richardson died during the night. What a truly dreadful thing to happen, the result of what looked like a minor head injury anyone might have suffered on or off the ski slope.
Perhaps that’s why they led this morning’s news bulletins on her death, even on Radio 4. Fairly well-known actress from a famous dynasty, married to a film star, tragic accident etc etc. The papers duly print photos of grief-stricken family members at the hospital, photos which strike me as intrusive, heartless even. The whole packaged affair is, well, ghoulish.
White has more:
I know, it happens all the time. Jade Goody seems to be taking part in her own death for the benefit of the media. We’re told it’s a good thing, bringing the unmentionable reality of modern death back into people’s lives. If that is so, all well and good, but is it true?
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A few weeks ago I raised an eyebrow on hearing that prime minister’s question time had been cancelled because of the sudden death of the Camerons’ son, Ivan, and was criticised for it – though few politicians with whom I have discussed the matter privately disagree…
Child dies makes a better story than child lives. It’s a better public spectacle:
This week the Daily Mail, master manipulator of public sentimentality, has launched a campaign to help surviving veterans of the D-Day landings – there are apparently only 500 still alive, which seems very few – return to Normandy for the 65th anniversary celebrations on 6 June.
Jade Goody. Natasha Richardson. Ivan Cameron. Broken Britain. The Economy. Global warming. Anyone got a full house of issues on their Bingo cards yet? Back to Bingo caller White, who is talking of war:
We are anniversary-minded these days, partly because it makes for good TV.
And great copy.
…The D-Day invasion was a great achievement, a blow for human liberation from tyranny though – one has to say this again – most of the fearsome task was already being undertaken by the Red Army, whose successors in Moscow exploit that victory for their own domestic purposes.
So why make a big thing about the 65th anniversary? I don’t really know. But I suspect it has a good deal to do with a sentimental and selective vision of the past that no one needs reminding about (even the kids have seen Saving Private Ryan) but will make great pictures.
And then…
A bit like the poor Richardson family.
Bingo!
Forget the detail - it’s all just news…
Posted: 19th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts Comments (16) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 24th, 2009 at 10:26 am
As for anti-God, E - That’s between me and him and how fast I can swing my non-corporeal fist before judgement. Oh, wait…I’d never get past St. Peter the bouncer.
As for anti-dying - Yeah, I’m all up for that. Immortality for all and holidays on the moon.
As for so sad, don’t wish me JOY, give me JOY. Get out of my metaphorical garden. You should know what to do with the gate. If I want my soul saved, I’ll go and see a professional.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:06 am
FOR ALL YOU ANTI -GOD and ANTI -DYING SO SAD COMMENTERS.
A WISH FOR YOU ALL.
When you are lonely,
I wish you LOVE.
When you are sad,
I wish youJOY.
When you are discouraged,
I wish youHOPE.
When your spirit is low,
I wish you BEAUTY.
When you are troubled,
I wish you PEACE.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:34 am
Y argue bout a dying person? Isn’t that selfish? Just stop wit that.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:31 am
Jade Goody died 2day……:,(
March 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
porters making pots? what a carry-on….
March 20th, 2009 at 10:59 am
perhaps he was being satyrical. ?
March 20th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Yesterday, when Mr O put his deity to the test…
March 20th, 2009 at 9:53 am
When did porters start making pots?
March 20th, 2009 at 9:14 am
….just another little matter I would like to point out to Mr Ogbuagu - you say that you want people to test God - I thought the whole idea was that you blindly believe everything you are told, or “have faith”, as it is so innocuously referred to…?
March 19th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
The only problem with the Bejesus Brigade joining in on the comments is that you can’t do what you would if they were to knock on your door. My favourite is:
“I refer you to what the good Lord said to Adam and Eve. Get out of my garden. Oh, and close the fucking gate after you.”
March 19th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Does Mr Ogbuagu live in Southampton and does he “God bother” people on the street? I had some Nigerian chap bothering me there last Saturday and, even though I told him I don’t believe in god (yes, no capital “G”) but fair play to him and all that, he wouldn’t take the hint and bugger off. It ruined my Gregg’s pasty which I don’t get to enjoy very often as we live on the Pile’o'Shite and ain’t got one there
AND upset my kid, who goes to a C of E school, because she heard me say I don’t believe. GRR.
Jade really does seem to have attracted the christian vote though. Is Jade the new Jesus? Will she be worshipped in years to come, having left St Max to spread the good(y) word? Will OK magazine eventually replace Gideon’s Bible in hotel rooms?
March 19th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
If you were God would you want Jade Goody hanging about, generally being a nuisance and completely managing to bring the tone of the place down?
March 19th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Oh yuck, no wonder I’m a Pagan…..
But will Jade be happy to know that Mr Ogbuagu compares her to a pot?
Mr O sweetie, most ladies like to be compared to a summers day, not a pot……
March 19th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Oh.. okay then.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
…didn’t do much for Natasha Richardson, did he….?
…I wonder why that was….?
please do enlighten me as to why your God “has decided” not to save Natasha, but according to you, he will “save” Jade - a woman with TERMINAL cancer, that’s as in “final”, “unstoppable”, “untreatable” etc etc etc….
..give me strength….
March 19th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
The doctors have said and the world believe it that Jade will die.
I believe that Jade will not die, i want people to test God on this. He created Jade’s body just as the porter makes the pot. He alone can recreate it and give it more life. All that Jade needs to do is to submit that mortal body to the maker and he will remake it; if not in this world but in the world to come.
I have watched with terrible emotional braekdown every day about Jade. I have not ceased to ask God to reverse this situation. I only know Jade, by television and believe that my Jesus who gave sight to the blind, legs to the crippled and raised the dead will heal and raise Jade. He will prove that He is God and no one else.
I will continue in my prayers until God reverses this situation which i believe He can do.- Amne