I suppose her dying was sad but the way that the newspapers wrote about it was counter-productive in a sense - it changed a real-life tragedy (someone dying of cancer) into a Hallmarks weepie, about a perfect, charming princess who was brave to the end - which was always going to make the cynical (or less-easily-manipulated) react against it.
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Jade Goody played the media when she was diagnosed with cancer in order to make a shit load of money for her kids. I'd do the same thing if I was in her position. It wasn't her fault that people obsess over things not worth obsessing about. She was just smart enough to capitalise on it.
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I found it strange though that everyone (well, the majority of newspaper columnists anyway) said how praiseworthy it was for Jade to make money for her children - the merest mention of words like 'mum', 'the children' and 'charity' makes people too pious in general - and yet nobody pointed-out that her children are millionaires anyway. How much do they need? Did Jade actually give any money to cancer charities? It would have given the whole thing a little more dignity; instead I couldn't rid myself of the thought that it was more vulgar money-grabbing.