“Was Stalin right when he observed that a death is a tradgedy while a million deaths are merely a statistic?”

I deserve to be flayed with eels for pedantry as great as this, but I’m not sure there’s any record of Stalin saying that…

http://bailey83221.livejournal.com/87856.html

Ignore the contrarians. Some people just *LOVE* arguing the toss and this thread (and the usual suspects) is testament to that. “no-one forces you…blah blah”, yawn. Hollow, empty phrase that means absolutely F.A.

Seriously… Shatterface and Debi’s quaint Strawman argument was good for laughs. Even if it doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny. I’m glad I provided a suitable meatbag for them to punch. )

LC does have a wide varierty of subject matter, I guess that’s why many of us turn up here. This was simply a quicky about one part of the press being particularly tasteless on a particular occassion. It didn’t take up much time writing or reading it, if it doesn’t interest you just move on!

It’s obviously deserving of comment.

(I don’t blame Jade incidentally, I’m just depressed that there’s a market for daily pictures and quotes of her miserable decline.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/18/jade-celebrity

Heh. Whatever.

Dude, did you even read the post???

I’m referring to the mawkish “tribute issue”. I know you’re desperate to hang mentioning Goody around my neck and throw me into the deep blue sea, but she was never my point.

I don’t expect OK! to publish great political tracts, I do expect them to wait until someone has actually died before producing a “tribute issue” sporting the YEAR OF HER DEATH!

Jeeesh.

‘die, die, die, lady die, die’

That one was in a tunnel in Paris!

Whooosh, I know.

And the reason people THINK the know Goody is because of the endless publicity she has received in the ‘quality’ press as much as the tabloids, and on blogs like this.

OK Magazine is about celebrity culture, not political analysis: what other story SHOULD they be running right now?

More to the point why is the plight of on celebrity (and a particually worthless one at that) getting so much attention when there are wars and homicidal tyranny (Burma and the LRA’s recent isurrection into the Congo for example) that rarely gets reported on?

Was Stalin right when he observed that a death is a tradgedy while a million deaths are merely a statistic?

Unfortunately for millions of pople all over the world it appears he was.

OK, my bad.

So, let it be known from this point forward….

NO-ONE IS TO EVER PASS COMMENT ON THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF OUR CELEB-BASED MEDIA, AS THIS WOULD MERELY ADD TO THE DIN.

Sound stupid? Yeah, I thought so too.

…this kind of meta-commentary is just an excuse for engaging in ghoulish gossip you think you are above.

Oh yeah. I’ve been lying in wait for weeks for the chance for an excuse to engage in the Goody story. I’m just delighted to have had the chance. And if it wasn’t for you pesky kids, I would have got a way with it.

Ha!

This is a moronic statement.

As I said:

“Take a look at the blogosphere. Holding the MSM to account is one of the primary responsibilities of the medium. Are you seriously suggesting I can’t pass comment on the ridiculousness of celebrity media, because I’m in danger of perpetuating it?”

Nuff said.

http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2009/03/sarah-harman-jumps-on-jade-goody.html

The revulsion-ometer flickered into the red after that little gem.

Aaron, Debi is right. Nobody is forcing you to read celebrity magazines and writing a blog on it is just adding to the hype.

The Guardian does this all the time: a continuous meta-commentary on the obssession with celebrity to the point they were actually printing more about Celebrity BB than anyone else (and I’m adding to it here).