The Jade Goody business: a new low for Britain?

[Flat_Eric]

one eyed jack wrote:

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I dont follow it because I choose not to. Call me shallow if you like but she is making oney out of all this whether you hater her or not because both sides of the fence are stokig those fires of interest incessantly.>>>


But Jack - as I explained in the other thread about Goody, that's not it at all.

We're not in thrall to the media. It's just that the story is there in front of us every time we switch on the TV news, open a newspaper or go online.

There's no escape. That's not being like 'in the grasp of some new religion'. It's being part of an unwilling captive audience. Which is NOT the same thing.

You're a reasonably intelligent chap - don't you understand that?

In fact the opposite is true - we're just fed up about the whole thing and wish it'd all go away.

We're moaning about it because it's onmipresent. The Goody circus is not (as you seem to be suggesting) omnipresent because we're moaning about it. See the difference?

The 5 million chavs and sad 'celebrity-wannabe' teenagers who buy the trashmags for the Goody wedding photos, the Fleet Street redtop and Max Clifford are the ones responsible - they don't our help to fan the flames of publicity. I think you're grossly overestimating the influence of the EGAFD "OT Forum" in the wider world if you think that our humble threads are making a difference (Goody and Clifford probably don't even know that we exist).

You also say "I dont follow it because I choose not to". And yet here you are discussing it like the rest of us. So if we are all indeed "in the grasp of the media" - then so my friend are you.

- Eric

[one eyed jack]

I do understand that Eric but it sems you all seem to know about Jade Goody than me. Sounds like I follow it the least (or filter it out successfully when ever I see her on tv enough for it not to bother me).

But you said it yourself ...."It's being part of an unwilling captive audience" thats why I said what i said.

You do have a choice though.

Just switch channels. thats what remotes are for.

[colonel]

And never read a tabloid newspaper again!

[speedybert]

Sad state of affairs.Wendy Richard dies with dignity.Bobby Robson will ultimately do the same.

Jade Goody:Product of the Car Crash Television age.Made more money than anyone else from Big Brother(and she didn't even win it!!)!sick!

Hero 1st then Villain and now a hero again!idontbelieveit!


It's the kids I feel the sorriest for

[hotmandy69]

I agree with speedybert - its the kids we need to be thinking out! Whatever you think of Jade and her choices in her final moments, there are very young and innocent children at the centre of it, who are about to lose their mother, and lets face it, will be left with a lot of bad people around them. I hope the media will leave them alone and somebody will have the balls to step in and ensure these young boys are left alone and not exploited. x

[one eyed jack]

Oh they will be exploited. You can count on that Hotmandy...They will be swooped on by vultures after a fresh kill and you can bank on more Jade Goody after she has passed. The media will be ramming this down your throat and I wouldnt be surprised if there is a future ad campaign for cancer like there was with Bob Monkhouse years after his death (anyone remember that)

Jade is a vehicle of rpublicity and thats what she was set up for and what she is ultimately paid a ton of money for. Max Clifford is just the conduit and while everyone might hate him I doubt he gives a rats fart what we think as he drives around in his Bentley (if he has one) living it up in the Savoy (if thats his thing)

43 posts later and we are still on JG...I rest my case.

[max_tranmere]

I agree with what's been said. Her kids will continue to be exploited by bad people after she has died, all in order to make more money. I have a relative whose son was in tears when his mother got remarried, he knew the man who was about to formally become his stepdad, they had lived together as a family for a while but it still upset him as it made permanent the fact that his parents would never ever reconsile.

Try and imagine the effects on Jade Goody's kid's of all this. They see some man they probably only met a few times, havent seem for ages as he has been in prison, come out, marry their mum, then hours of stage-managed photoshoots which would take longer than the wedding did - all in order to make more money. The boys would have been told, at various times, to sit on this guy's lap, get a picture taken, then on someone else's lap, and so on. And this is all done just because people can see their bank balances bulging even more!

This will really mess with the kids heads. This whole business is one of the most terrible things I've ever heard of! A new low in British history, as I said at the top. It makes me ashamed to call myself British. It is very sad that an individual is dying, but then it is sad that anyone dies. Let's call a spade a spade here: Goody is a vile, revoluting slag and probably the most undignified person I've ever heard of!! So is that stupid ponse she 'married', and the kids father plays along with the whole thing - he will make money out of it too, either directly or through book or magazine deals, tv appearances or whatever. People like this help ruin our country!

[colonel]

Essex Social Services?

[one eyed jack]

Max, why stop there?..Surely you must recognise that JG is the sum total of the way things have been for years.

As repugnant as this might seem to you i still stand by the fact she is making a ton of dough out of it but unfortunately she is a hero to the masses and unfortunately this is the way britain is becoming as society is imploding on itself and the chav culture you so hate is now becoming the accepted norm.

Officer Dibble is onto something and I can see where he is coming from but the problem is not just the chavs you hate. They are a by-product to the way society is going. Not just here but in the entire western world with its poor family values and street hooliganism which was preciptated by the age divide of those who have lost control and respect of the young which is largely the problem we have today.

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There she is in a totally different country and culture steeped in porverty but rich in family values and with children eager to learn. Im sure she will make comparisons with that country and her own and know full well what i am harping on about here.

Like many things, if people want to imporve their lot then its going to take a mass concerted effort which people are not prepared to do so expect it to get worse.

A lot worse until the day comes when you kick the proverbial bucket unhappy because you know you wont miss a thing and the truth is...Something couldve been done to stop the rot and the longer it is left the harder it will be to climb out of.

[colonel]

A friend in London media circles has seen one of the sick fake funeral invitations which are, apparently, doing the rounds in Fleet Street- with church, pew and even seat numbers on there.

Sick and obviously fake.

Or......are they?