Mumsnet - please can you sort out all the Jade posts?

well, you're saying that her being identifiable brought about a rise in smears, which is a good thing. but the downside of that 'if she can do it' attitude is the Jeremy Kyle, 'i'll do anything to get on telly' one, because they know they can do it, because jade did. you can't isolate the jade effect on smear figures from teh wider jade effect.

Aitch, I don't think that part of what I said was a Good Thing either - it was designed to lead into the next part.

Oh yes so they are

Sorry. I am very thick.

your initials are FO, surely?

Wow MM = Madeline McCann?

I THOUGHT MM was me.

"I think the best part of any post I have seen so far was QS saying "she was not a nobody - she was an anybody" and that is absolutely it - she took the fact that even the apparently dimmest and (at the time) least good looking people could "make it" on TV - how many people then thought - "if she could do it, then so could I!"

yes, i think that is true. i think it's what gets people on Jeremy Kyle every day. i don't actually think it's a good thing.

and as for the 'hating', where is it? actually where is it, rather than just 'oh boo hoo i am shocked'?

there is. I wonder if Mumsnet HQ could merge all the horrid threads into one?

have just found this...can;'t believe that there is such hatred about and from fellow mothers .

Bump for kingprawnjalfrezi, Seeker and other people who want to discuss the media surrounding Jade and who don't want to piss people off in the thread where people are expressing sympathies to Jade's family

No I can be blamed I have never agreed with a Mail article in my life. I should know better.

I have apologised for the article I clearly only skim read it and saw the few sensible comments and thought that is good. In my defence I had 2 hours sleep last night

beanie, I think you found the right article and it was horrid. There were a few, very few, sensible comments but most of it was pretty shoddy.

I think the best part of any post I have seen so far was QS saying "she was not a nobody - she was an anybody" and that is absolutely it - she took the fact that even the apparently dimmest and (at the time) least good looking people could "make it" on TV - how many people then thought - "if she could do it, then so could I!"
which is why, I would think, many women are now thinking "if she could die of cervical cancer at an early age, so could I"

I dont know I was reading it while watching dd dance and laminating.

though to be fair your link didn't work for me and so maybe I have found teh wrong article?

lol! sorry :D

Why have I not read any of that?
Beanie you have made me feel better as I was quite disturbed that I was in whole hearted agreement with a mail article and I have been freed from that curse. I am officially crap at multi tasking.

that articlue is jam packed full of snobery and cruelty and snidness. It's foul foul foul!

and this is just mean and foul

"The showpiece was supposed to be the fairytale Jade and Jack wedding, but close viewing of the Living TV documentary revealed a grimmer story. Goody's sons and family were in visible distress for most of the tortuous ceremony, in which no one, least of all the bridal couple, had anything profound to say."

I don't think anyone is pretending she was a saint though!

Personally I think that is a terribly written article. Someone trying far too hard.

'like a tray of loaves'

'blurry with pain and fogged by opiates'

'Should we even have been privy to these distressing and most personal of images in the first place?. It is a question the country has exhausted itself trying to answer' !!!!!!!!!! what country is Jan Mooir living in?

'Now we have learned that one of her deathbed wishes was for a grand, public funeral.' - I thought this had already been denied by the family?

And they caption the pictures with "From left to right; feckless Jeff Brazier" FECKLESS!? what makes anyone think that?

'Her mother Jackiey, a one-armed lesbian and former drug addict' I BEG YOUR PARDON!!!?

I could go on but what bit of this article is in any way good?!

You wont here me say this ever again but there is a mail article I agree with on this topic.