This entire post is mostly just me shouting into the wind. Today’s Sunday Independent has as its main front page story something about Kathy French and her death. I haven’t read the story. I just don’t care. I mean, we all know the Sunday Indo is a complete rag, but why in fuck’s name can they not find something better to talk about than some drugged up tart that died over a year ago? There’s two things I find about the whole coverage of French really annoying. One the attempts to make her ‘important’ – politicians, scientists, people that make a difference in other people’s lives, these people are important. Secondly, what is so interesting about her that she’s still being covered so long after? This ‘deification’ of French and other ‘non-entity’ dead people really annoys me. I mean, if she was going to rise again, one would have assumed that it would have happened by now….
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Eugene | 25-Aug-08 at 9:43 am | Permalink
bit of a rant? Why does it bother you so much?
John | 26-Aug-08 at 7:57 am | Permalink
I just really hate Kathy French and the Sunday Indo, the two of them together …. just set me off.
Eugene | 29-Aug-08 at 4:21 pm | Permalink
prejudiced john?
John | 29-Aug-08 at 6:51 pm | Permalink
not really, prejudice implies ..
’1.an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2.any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3.unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, esp. of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.’
… and I don’t think any of those apply to me! I think I cover my dislike for both and reasons for it in my article there…
Katie Harrington | 02-Sep-08 at 6:41 am | Permalink
Hey John,
I totally agree with you. Until she died, I had honestly never heard of Katie French, though I will admit to not keeping up to date with the Irish modelling industry.
What really annoyed me about Katie French’s death and all the coverage it got was that two guys in Waterford died from cocaine OD’s the same week, and they barely got a cursory column in the nationals. Why was Katie French so much more important… she wasn’t.
I can’t imagine why she would need another front page story; it’s a follow up to old news.