Peaches Geldof is dead, age 25

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Are they maybe mis-remembering last bacon sandwich scare story?

Pfft.

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[Pickman's model]

Though I'm not keen on media manufactured mass grieving for celebrities, I think that's a tad harsh. It is possible to be very upset to hear of an untimely death of someone you don't personally know.

i was very upset margaret thatcher's death was so delayed.

 

[brogdale]

i was very upset margaret thatcher's death was so delayed.

 

[D'wards]

I bet the paparazzicunt that stuck a camera in Mick Jagger's face the other week is camped outside the Geldof house.

I read the Mail and Guardian online, you know, for a bit of balance.

In the Mail they had pics of her home and ambulance taking her away etc, they had none of this in the Guardian and the reporting was not poorer because of it...

 

[Pickman's model]

I read the Mail and Guardian online, you know, for a bit of balance.

In the Mail they had pics of her home and ambulance taking her away etc, they had none of this in the Guardian and the reporting was not poorer because of it...

so you read two shit papers to get good news? take a long look at yourself and ask yourself why.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I read the Mail and Guardian online, you know, for a bit of balance.

In the Mail they had pics of her home and ambulance taking her away etc, they had none of this in the Guardian and the reporting was not poorer because of it...

The Guardian does of course have a piece by Roy Greenslade saying "is all this coverage of Peaches Geldof dying over the top?" http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/apr/08/peaches-geldof-national-newspapers

 

[Orang Utan]

that being the case why is there so much fuss? http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/30/how-well-know-your-neighbours

Celebrities have taken over that role. Mass media has taken over the role.of the village pump. We no longer gossip about her two doors down, but about some soap actor's indiscretions instead.

 

[Pickman's model]

Celebrities have taken over that role. Mass media has taken over the role.of the village pump. We no longer gossip about her two doors down, but about some soap actor's indiscretions instead.

you may. i don't.

 

[Orang Utan]

you may. i don't.

I don't read newspapers or watch TV news but many do

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Maybe I've misinterpreted Peaches Geldof's level of general fame but she doesn't strike me as being people's neighbour, more her from a couple of streets down who you see in the supermarket occasionally.

 

[treelover]

were you a subscriber?

nah, could never do the tie breakers which you had to do as so many would 'win'

 

[D'wards]

so you read two shit papers to get good news? take a long look at yourself and ask yourself why.

Okay, i have an hour to spare, i'll go and do that now

 

[Orang Utan]

Maybe I've misinterpreted Peaches Geldof's level of general fame but she doesn't strike me as being people's neighbour, more her from a couple of streets down who you see in the supermarket occasionally.

You would still be sad if the young mother who you saw down the supermarket occasionally dropped dead all of a sudden.

 

[brogdale]

Maybe I've misinterpreted Peaches Geldof's level of general fame but she doesn't strike me as being people's neighbour, more her from a couple of streets down who you see in the supermarket occasionally.

Yep, which is why I started questioning the primacy of the story in virtually all of the online media last night. TBH, if my parents were not near neighbours of her father's converted Benedictine nunnery, I'm not sure that I'd have really been aware of her existence.

 

[Wilf]

You would still be sad if the young mother who you saw down the supermarket occasionally dropped dead all of a sudden.

We buy our groceries and celebs online now.

 

[Citizen66]

Maybe I've misinterpreted Peaches Geldof's level of general fame but she doesn't strike me as being people's neighbour, more her from a couple of streets down who you see in the supermarket occasionally.

The girl from a couple of streets down that you see in the supermarket every now and then that you know the parents of, then.

 

[treelover]

Yep, which is why I started questioning the primacy of the story in virtually all of the online media last night. TBH, if my parents were not near neighbours of her father's converted Benedictine nunnery, I'm not sure that I'd have really been aware of her existence.

Bob Geldof is seriously rich, he owns Ten Alps and other media companies.

 

[Orang Utan]

She and one of her sisters used to get dumped in a shop I used to work in on the King's Road, while her mum and a mate went shopping in Sloane Street. They were so aware of their mum's fane that instead of asking where their mum had got to, they'd ask for her by her name.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

You would still be sad if the young mother who you saw down the supermarket occasionally dropped dead all of a sudden.

It would be sad but I'd be surprised if people were constantly knocking on my door and ringing me up telling me about it.

 

[UrbaneFox]

tbh it's not like she was the people's peaches, no one outside her social circle has a claim on her.

Very good.

 

[cantsin]

Yep, but it just sounded a little harsh; perhaps unintentionally so?

I'm not sure "did you know her personally..." qualifies as even "a little harsh" amidst the rough and tumble of modern life tbh

 

[ViolentPanda]

You know what? Anything is too much to ask of someone going through something so awful, but I hope he goes ballistic at the slightest whiff of intrusion or sensationalising. It's long past time that borh "ordinary" folk and celebs revolted against tabloid filth.

The problem is that many tabloid editors see their job not in terms of sensationalising, as much as in terms of "provoking debate" in the public interest.
Obviously, their ideas of what constitutes "the public interest" are fairly residual and base, and not generally in keeping with what the public says that it wants, but nevertheless, there is an unfortunate market for this stuff (enough of a market that even the post-Leveson regulations won't change too much of what they do).

 

[ViolentPanda]

She's just a rent a gob. There are bigger evils in the world to deal with.

True, but being a "rent-a-gob" isn't exactly a pinnacle of achievement. It means that your convictions are meaningless to you in the face of money. Me, I prefer people who have their own opinions, even if their opinions seem wrong to me. Better that, than whoring your integrity to the highest bidder.

 

[twentythreedom]

You can only see stuff by people you follow, so don't follow hateful people.

Not if you search for "peaches geldof" - then you see every tweet about her. That's what I did yesterday.

 

[Pickman's model]

You would still be sad if the young mother who you saw down the supermarket occasionally dropped dead all of a sudden.

i would be surprised and perhaps perturbed if she died more than once, even if only on an occasional basis

 

[ViolentPanda]

Funny how people want to grieve and express sorrow about some non-entity who had a famous father.

If it were about the individual, you might have a point, but as is obvious from the preceding 5 pages, it's mostly sorrow at someone or anyone dying that young, and sorrow that a couple of young children have lost a parent.
If that is a bit difficult for you to understand, then I suggest you work on your "impersonating a human being" skills a bit harder.

 

[Orang Utan]

Not if you search for "peaches geldof" - then you see every tweet about her. That's what I did yesterday.

Then don't do it! I only read tweets from people I follow. Haven't got the time nor the inclination to search strangers' tweets.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Except Barry Island.

Yeah, but Barry is supposedly the 'ardest place on earth, so Barryites probably don't give a fuck.

 

[scifisam]

If it were about the individual, you might have a point, but as is obvious from the preceding 5 pages, it's mostly sorrow at someone or anyone dying that young, and sorrow that a couple of young children have lost a parent.
If that is a bit difficult for you to understand, then I suggest you work on your "impersonating a human being" skills a bit harder.

Yes - these famous people's deaths are either:

An extension of friendly gossip (did you hear so-and-so's daughter's died? How terrible, let's take a bunch of flowers down) which happens because we are social beings, living in very large groups, not just as families;

Or a representation of people we do actually know, but most people don't: your wider group of friends didn't know your 6th-form friend who died unexpectedly, but they do have some knowledge of the famous person that they came to before knowing you. This famous death reminds you of the person you were actually close to.

Sometimes it's both.

And if someone on here had posted about their child dying in the same way, there would be a lot of genuine grief felt by the people reading that, even if the poster had never come to any real life meets. Because we can empathise.

 

[UrbaneFox]

They'll struggle to connect this to benefit scroungers or Romanians, but I don't rule it out.

She lived in Kent, where a lot of the people who pick fruit are paid cash in hand or come from eastern Europe, so this could be
trending by teatime, if not before.