Originally Posted by Gayle (Post 689144)

Is it just me or does anyone else feel like this is a bit surreal? I mean, because of the way it's been played out in the media, it almost feels like there's something else at play here, almost like there's going to be some miraculous recovery or something.

I'm sure that she wouldn't be so manipulative and if it was something a bit bizarre then there would be too many people involved to keep it under wraps - but something, somewhere feels odd about it all.

It's probably just me, feeling like that.

Originally Posted by panther (Post 689225)

well we will all know soon enough gayle, though i must confess i have had the same feelings as you and a few people i know have said the same, but surely no one would make this into a sick joke....would they??.....

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 689320)

I don't think it's voyeurism... most people can't be bothered to read or watch Jades demise... can't blame her for being in the papers everyday beacause she's not the one who decides what goes on the front page.. it's the media forcing this stuff on everyone.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 689337)

Wrong.

The papers give people what they want, not the other way round.

She's currently in the pay of the News of the World, the largest selling Sunday rag, and also has an exclusive deal with OK, the largest selling weekly magazine.

People have the choice to read Punch or the Guardian, but the vast majority don't, and the ones that sell the best are the ones that get their cheque books out for Jade Goody and the rest.

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 689344)

Well.. no... if you buy a daily paper some will buy to see reports on Jade Goody but most will by to check out stuff like sports results.. the media do ram stuff down our throuts

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 689348)

Yeah right, whatever....and blokes just buy top shelf mags for the 'motoring articles'.

You may not like it but the great British public have developed a voracious appetite for 'celebrity'. It's been proven time and time again. Same publication, same title, one with an unknown model on one cover, the other featuring Diana/Jade/Posh, celeb one out sells the other 10 to 1. Same happens with newspapers.

Besides there's not a lot of Sport, or anything else besides celeb pics, in the U.K.'s best selling weekly mags, OK, Heat and Hello.;)

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 689350)

Magazines are more like an induvidual choice..they cost more and are targeted on particular items..a daily paper is cheap and reports news and results.. it's a big difference..and a daily newspaper can have a far greater influance in headlining on a daily basis... because it's so called "news".

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 689353)

If you don't think there isn't whole industry working out exactly what sells and what doesn't, you're very naive, because there is.;)

Check out the photographs on all the top selling daily 'news'papers.

Not many starving kids in Africa, or civilian war dead in Iraq.

Lots of Jade's wedding, Posh's shoes, or Fern's cellulite.;)