Originally Posted by Neon Dollars Daniel

Parky said:

"Jade Goody has her own place in the history of television and, while it?s significant, it?s nothing to be proud of. Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it?s not the passing of a martyr or a saint or, God help us, Princess Di.

?When we clear the media smoke screen from around her death, what we?re left with is a woman who came to represent all that?s paltry and wretched about Britain today.

?She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and became a media chattel to be exploited till the day she died.?

He seems to hit the nail fairly squarely on the head!