Madeleine Bunting writes on the media coverage of Jade Goody which it appears will continue until her sad death at the pace in which it has been conducted since she first found fame
The British economy is in free fall, but for a good section of the population, the subject about which they most want to read, watch or surf is death
Which may well be true and she continues
The most striking thing about the coverage is how celebratory it is
but maybe this is the reason
It's not hard to see why we might want to reassure ourselves of the better qualities of human nature and the possibility of redemption just now, as we emerge bleary-eyed from a 20-year delusion that we could indulge our debt-driven preoccupation with house prices for ever.
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