Parky.

I had a conversation in the pub with my lads on thursday night about Parkinsons 'rant' about Jade Goody.

He wasn't attacking her, for pity's sake, but no one has bothered to see what he actually said.
He was attcking and somewhat blaming, the media. He didn't say she was awful.
His point was that 6-8 months ago she was an advert for what was wrong with our country,
and frankly he had a point. 6 months ago, you would never have seen a nice article about her and never would you have thought that once she passed on there would be magazine dedications and freaking SHRINES! in her memory.
Yet as soon as a relatively innocent young woman dies, she is blasted into the idolisation stratosphere! Come on. I'm not contradicting my earlier post, if you read this properly, I'm merely stating that all of a sudden the woman dies and is almost being cannonised!
She wasn't a saint, and nor was she the devil personified.
But a memorial garden? Really?!

I'm with Parky, I may not have put it in quite the same way but he's right.
One minute you do anything to knock her over and kick her while she's down.
Now she's an idol simply for getting cancer and dying, because she spread the word?
If she was an average, normal non-celebrity (I use the term very loosely) she would have died in peace behind closed doors.

Get some bloody perspective. No-one is bashing her, but where is the need to praise a woman people hated last year?

Fickle people, fickle tastes, fickle media.
Sheesh!

Ciao.
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