I know it’s been done to death elsewhere but I had to say something.
When Jade Goody’s wedding is the lead story on Sky News I can roll my eyes, tut and remember that Sky News is a visual tabloid rag.
And despite everything else that’s going on here I can sort of understand the Irish papers running the Jade dying/getting married shit because witless saps love rubbernecking. There are more witless saps than not and a dying woman is taking their minds off how fucked we all are.
This morning though Newstalk had a guy on from the Sunday Times to talk about Jade’s wedding.
Claire Byrne asked him what it was like, what he’d seen, what did people think.
And basically because of the lucrative deals she’s done with Living TV (oh, the irony), and one of those horrible celeb magazines, nobody was allowd without 100 metres of where the wedding took place.
‘What did you see?’, asked Claire Byrne.
‘Nothing’, said the Sunday Times bloke.
That didn’t stop them talking about the nothing for five minutes though. So as much as I don’t quite like how someone like her has generated such an amount of publicity I can understand it. And now it’s gone so far that even ‘nothing’ about Jade Goody is worthy of discussion.
I bet she could set up a Twitter account, post the words ‘still dying’ once an hour, on the hour, and she’d get thousands of followers.
We have been reduced to nothing being newsworthy. Empty is the new full. Naught is everything.
In the end we won’t know what to do with something. The day is coming.
How Existential.
You’re not wrong though.
Give us a little bit of something, there, see what happens?
A lot of G&Ts can do that to a fellah, and listening to Newsqawk.
Your infective optimism will return, won’t it?
Jo – when nothing is something you’ve always got something.
Conan – Definitely the juniper blues going on. I’ll be effervescent tomorrow, I’m sure.
when nothing is something you’ve always got something
How Anti-Lear!
Tags make for interesting reading.
‘absinthe makes the heart grow fonder blogging book boring’
Indeed.
Get out there in the sunshine for a wee bit, young feller. Feed some ducks.
So the Sunday Times fella saw nothing, but was comfortable making up bollocks for the next five minutes, eh?
Friend of yours was he, Twenty?
There is no such thing as Nothing..Its an impossibility..even an empty room is filled with particles that have mass..(Yes i was watching QI)
Basically,its not nothing its filling peoples lives with other peoples misery and feigning empathy and compassion..
I know alot of people that are like that,but thankfully I know alot of people that fill their life with ,joy ,mischief,love,art,music,reading,computer games,cooking… I think about them more than the empty crowd.. unfortunatly they are outnumbered by about 200,000:1…
heh, SoS. Enjoy the book.
I think you’re right, Fill3rup. It’s hard not to think we’re in the minority.
Now, I’m off to eat some ducks.
OK this isn’t really about Jade Goody so goody because I’m fucking sick of that story and Cork hurling.
Sky News and Eastenders are to blame for the rise of scumbag culture.
actually dying , is the most realistic reality i’ve heard of so far
2 things twenty
1 – Claire Byrne is a vacuous cunt – how the fuck those two keep that morning radio job is beyond my comprehension.
2 – Sky News is another cunt; i’ve never watched it but…on Channel 4 News, which I never miss, they showed Sky interupting an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to go live to Max Clifford outside the wedding hall.
Shows you where the planets priorities are and also, I suppose, why Claire Byrne still has her lowest common denominator outlook on life.
cunts, the lot of them. useless cunts too.
The weird thing about that is that I do feel empathy, or sympathy, towards someone like Jade Goody. She’s a human dying of cancer and that’s just nasty. Celebrity ho or not, that’s got to be scary.
Like, I can’t bring myself to find it funny just because she’s ‘famous’, no more than I can give a shit about the rest of her life.
But the weird reaction of people when I mention that there are hundreds of others in the very same situation right now, in our own country, and if anyone really cared, they would at least contribute to Cancer research to help others in the future is weird to say the least. It’s like I’ve spolied a prty or something.
People really do seem to feed off whatever’s being served up by the tabloids. Crying over Jade Goody just because it’s packaged that way, yet casually dismissing non-famous peoples’ misery seems all fucked up to me.
God bless you Jade. You were the Chav of all our Hearts.
When you die, can I have your Bentley?
I thought I had inadvertently switched on the Onion news the other day, when the headline ran.. “Jade Goody goes shopping for her wedding ring, looking very ill,” we’ll have all the very latest here on Sky News, with all the other top stories…
I dont have Satellite TV,my only regret in not having that is that I cant get Fox news..If you look at it as a razor sharp satire,i would imagine it would be my favourite channel..
If you look at it as a razor sharp satire,i would imagine it would be my favourite channel..
hahah.
I wonder how long til they have stuff like : “if you don’t love america then you must be a commie fag”
Check Bill O’Reillys Vids on Youtube… Its class..
He’s such a cock.
John Stewart does rip him apart on a regular basis, which is always fun.
Whats that other ones name?,she makes Bill look like a fucking Buddhist Monk..cant remember he name…
Anne Coulter, I bet.
Bingo….
I believe the correct term her (bar ,cunt) is
A Fucking Weapon..
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/if-ann-coulter-falls-in-the-forest-and-nobody-hears-her-can-we-just-leave-her-there/
All the Coulter that’s fit to eat
Morger, you’re on the money. Twenty, Jonathan Liebowitz, AKA, Jon Stewart, is a little pussy. Annie is still a hottie does looks tasty for a skinny broad.
Bleurgh, LL. She’s got man hands and a bigger Adams apple than you or I.
Was Shilpa at the wedding?
I’m still stunned by Jo’s revelation on the previous blog.
Jade Goody and Patrick Swazye appearing in panto together next christmas…..OH NO THEY’RE NOT…!
Great when you’re born, great when you’re dead; only a bollix in between. In your case Twenty, a bollix is too nice a phrase.
Well, at least she has a good rack.
ah come on guys you don’t really think she has cancer do you? it’s all a PR stunt to get ppl to forget she’s a racist.
believe you me this new “look” of hers, she’s just ripping off kerry katona and britney spear’s latest looks, watch and wait for a “miraculous” recovery..
Not to mention the deal with Goodbye magazine.
It’s true that the tabloid buying public does not want bad news stuffed down their throat’s…
Something bad is happening in the world, but ignorance is bliss… Let us find another person we can make Queen of Hearts and lead with that piece of news…
Nothing sells papers better than irrelevance… Relevant pieces of news just get in the way and make people upset…
True peice of writing…
Ha! well said, particularly the last line.