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Charlie Brooker on Jade Goody

Mr JK, 1 April, 2009 at 22:59 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0

On Newswipe, BBC4, doubtless repeated umpteen times over the next few days and of course on iPlayer till next Wednesday.

As soon as I was tipped off that he'd be discussing the Jade Goody saga, I hoped it would be the television equivalent of Private Eye's magnificent demolition of the media coverage of Princess Diana in the wake of her death...

...and that's exactly what it was. Absolutely superb stuff - a really intelligent, incisive dissection, interspersed with highly justified invective (such as calling Rod Liddle a cunt mid-rant, with supporting evidence). He also managed to bring off all this without in any way mocking the memory of Jade herself - in fact, she came out of it very well indeed compared with, say, Max Clifford, Carole Malone and various others.

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