Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones

Author:Owen Jones [Jones, Owen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Or again, it is not inconceivable, I suppose, that written into Goody's contract was a demand that at some point she be seen to be suffering from a potentially fatal illness, given that without one she isn't very interesting any more. A stroke would have made for more dramatic television, but cancer, you have to say, has a certain cachet."

Just days before Jade Goody's death, some journalists continued to take a pop at her as a proxy for those on the bottom rungs of society. 'A vulgar loudmouth, she initially appeared on the show as a kind of token Hogarthian lowlife; wrote Jan Moir, a Daily Mail columnist. 'First we have this godforsaken wedding, then the christening of her chil- dren, then an ungainly, Iickety-split spring to death and the ultimate chav state funeral.' Moir was not alone in attacking Jade's decision to allow television cameras to film her last weeks. When a figure such as celebrated journalist John Diamond recorded his own death from cancer through newspaper columns in The Times, he was applauded: but then again, he was a middle-class man writing for a middle-class newspaper.

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