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| Parkinson: 'Goody was exploited' | Parkinson: 'Goody was exploited' |
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| Sir Michael Parkinson has hit out at the media's treatment of the late reality TV star Jade Goody. | Sir Michael Parkinson has hit out at the media's treatment of the late reality TV star Jade Goody. |
| Writing in the Radio Times, the 74-year-old said Goody had become property of the media "to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died". | Writing in the Radio Times, the 74-year-old said Goody had become property of the media "to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died". |
| He added she came to represent "all that's paltry and wretched about Britain", and was "the perfect victim of our times". | He added she came to represent "all that's paltry and wretched about Britain", and was "the perfect victim of our times". |
| Goody died on Mother's Day aged 27 after battling cervical cancer. | Goody died on Mother's Day aged 27 after battling cervical cancer. |
| "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," Sir Michael wrote. | "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," Sir Michael wrote. |
| Exploitation | Exploitation |
| "When we clear the media smokescreen 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. | "When we clear the media smokescreen 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 both drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. | "She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know both drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. |
| "Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and, from that point on, became a media chattel to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died," he said. | "Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and, from that point on, became a media chattel to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died," he said. |
| The broadcaster added it was not the fact that Goody became famous in the first place that bothered him: "What bothers me is that the media first of all recommended we hate Jade Goody. | The broadcaster added it was not the fact that Goody became famous in the first place that bothered him: "What bothers me is that the media first of all recommended we hate Jade Goody. |
| "'A slapper with a face like a pig'; 'the most hated woman in Britain', remember? And shortly thereafter tried to persuade us to celebrate her." | "'A slapper with a face like a pig'; 'the most hated woman in Britain', remember? And shortly thereafter tried to persuade us to celebrate her." |
| He said Goody was "the perfect victim of our times...brought up in a cesspit of poverty and died to an orchestrated chorus of exploitation". | He said Goody was "the perfect victim of our times...brought up in a cesspit of poverty and died to an orchestrated chorus of exploitation". |
| "All that is to be wished of such a troubled soul is: rest in peace," he concluded. | "All that is to be wished of such a troubled soul is: rest in peace," he concluded. |
| Hundreds of well-wishers lined the streets to pay their respects to Goody as her funeral procession made its way through the streets from London to Essex on Saturday. | Hundreds of well-wishers lined the streets to pay their respects to Goody as her funeral procession made its way through the streets from London to Essex on Saturday. |