Jade Goody looses battle with cancer

[Graham Kennedy]

Of some note may be this article by Sir Michael Parkinson.

"Jade Goody has her own place in the history of television and, while it's significant, it's nothing to be proud of. Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it's not the passing of a martyr or a saint or, God help us, Princess Di," he said.

"When we clear the media smoke screen from around her death what we're left with is a woman who came to represent all that's paltry and wretched about Britain today. She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know both drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and from that point on became a media chattel to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died."

[Tsukiyumi]

What's a "sink estate"?

[Sionnach Glic]

I believe it's a polite way of saying "complete shithole".

[Tsukiyumi]

Ah, so the place I just moved from was a "sink estate". I'll file that away for future use.

[Mikey]

Probably the Brit version of "the projects."

[Aaron]

Probably the Brit version of "the projects."

Wikipedia says; failed social housing.

[Mikey]

Yep - the projects.

[Tsukiyumi]

Yep - the place I just moved from.

[Reliant121]

I hated her, but I dont wish cancer on anyone.

[Mikey]

I hated her, but I dont wish cancer on anyone.

Of course not. The point is that her disease and eventual death is no more media-worthy or important than anyone else's.

[Reliant121]

That I agree with. Although I can understand her doing it to set up finances for her children.

[Tsukiyumi]

That I agree with. Although I can understand her doing it to set up finances for her children.

If she hadn't, they might've ended up as puerile as she did.