As reported in OK! magazine last week, Jade Goody died this morning. The editor must be shitting himself with relief.
If the tabloids had tried this they'd have been vilified, but a it's a "magazine" it pretty much seems to have got away with it.
I always thought it was bad manners to claim someone was dead before their time, the epithet "F*** off and die" often being claimed to be in bad taste, but apparently the rules are different if you're a celeb-goss-mag-innit.
You see, playing deadline (there's irony for you) lotto means you have to decide in advance if some poor bugger is going to check out or not in good time for you to be "First for celebrity gossip" so it's always handy to claim the woman is dead in advance, then you don't have to worry about it for the next seven days. This morning for instance, the press are scrambling about trying to get the pre-prepped obituries ready to go but the editor of OK! is in bed with tea and toast as he had her pegged as deceased four days ago - result!
However, wiyh only one week's worth of death pix left to print, OK! now have to put their thinking caps on and decide who to cash in on next - I suggest Joseph Fritzl as, after all, it's not as though there needs to be any standards any more, does there?
If the tabloids had tried this they'd have been vilified, but a it's a "magazine" it pretty much seems to have got away with it.
I always thought it was bad manners to claim someone was dead before their time, the epithet "F*** off and die" often being claimed to be in bad taste, but apparently the rules are different if you're a celeb-goss-mag-innit.
You see, playing deadline (there's irony for you) lotto means you have to decide in advance if some poor bugger is going to check out or not in good time for you to be "First for celebrity gossip" so it's always handy to claim the woman is dead in advance, then you don't have to worry about it for the next seven days. This morning for instance, the press are scrambling about trying to get the pre-prepped obituries ready to go but the editor of OK! is in bed with tea and toast as he had her pegged as deceased four days ago - result!
However, wiyh only one week's worth of death pix left to print, OK! now have to put their thinking caps on and decide who to cash in on next - I suggest Joseph Fritzl as, after all, it's not as though there needs to be any standards any more, does there?
