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Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:32 pm
by 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."
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:44 pm
by Tsukiyumi
What's a "sink estate"?
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:39 am
by Sionnach Glic
I believe it's a polite way of saying "complete shithole".
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:12 am
by Tsukiyumi
Ah, so the place I just moved from was a "sink estate". I'll file that away for future use.
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:13 am
by Mikey
Probably the Brit version of "the projects."
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:15 am
by Aaron
Mikey wrote:Probably the Brit version of "the projects."
Wikipedia says;
failed social housing.
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:21 am
by Mikey
Yep - the projects.
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:59 am
by Tsukiyumi
Yep - the place I just moved from.
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:07 pm
by Reliant121
I hated her, but I dont wish cancer on anyone.
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:23 am
by Mikey
Reliant121 wrote: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.
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:37 pm
by Reliant121
That I agree with. Although I can understand her doing it to set up finances for her children.
Re: Jade Goody looses battle with cancer
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:22 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Reliant121 wrote: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.