Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
Quote Originally Posted by BoomBoom View Post
Whats amazing is that around 200,000 people die everyday. Roughly 40,000 of those are children who die from starvation. About 4,000 die of AIDS. Cancer kills approx. 20,000. It is sad when mostly anyone dies, but the media decided Jade Goodys life was more newsworthy than the other 199,999. The media is what amuses me, her death doesnt impact me in any way though. If I died a week earlier I doubt she would have come on Saddoboxing and left me so much as an RIP. But f@ck it, since ive aleady wrote this much...RIP Jade
So you'd rather that when a famous person dies there's just a media silence then?

Not you, you may not give a shit but millions of others do so that's why its covered, FOR THEM.

It's such a non point, people box on fightcards for peanuts all over the world in bouts in front of 50 people or less but let me guess this weekend you watched Vitali Klitchsko and Roy Jones.

Why did you not create a thread praising Ugandan's John Sajabi for winning his pro debut at the Little Flowers Arena in Kampala last night? I see you've had plenty to say about Klitschko and Jones but no mention for the little guys eh.

And what about other sports? Where was your concern for the Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorious who was in a boating accident on Saturday?

Let me put it to you that you didn't mention either of these guys because you have never heard of them and therefore simply do not care.

Well that's how it is in life! Jade Goody is news simply because her death IS important news to millions of people. So the newstatsions cover it for them.

These anonymous statistics you quote arn't significant to millions of people as nobody knows who they are. It's simple common sense. Just as we on this forum arn't going to talk about an Yong Panduck beating Chin Manoy in Manilla in a 4 rounder neither are the newscasters going to tell us about poor Mary Eller who died in her sleep aged 46 from Turrberry Crescent in Stover, England.

The irony is that you ARE talking about Jade Goody more than those who just acknowledged her sad death and moved on. It's clearly news to you too if you find it important enough to talk about it.
Thats probably true, and that fact alone is sad. Probably just as much as her death. Just an observation about how human beings care too much about some things, and not enough about others and we give more value to somethan others. And undeservedly so. Myself included, ill gve you that.