Peaches Geldof

[ewerk 30616]

Have some respect, she was an incredibly talented young journalist... apparently.

[ChezGiven 0]

Getting married in the church your mother was buried in and selling the photos to Hello! magazine?

 

Really?

[ewerk 30616]

I wasn't being entirely serious. If the media were to accurately portray her they would say that she was a talentless pisshead who but for her parents' fame and wealth would likely be a single mother of two living off benefits. However, she's dead so no one is allowed to say that.

[ChezGiven 0]

I know you weren't, i was just adding my own emphasis. She deserves some attention because of her dad really, whatever your opinion of him, the whole Live Aid thing was a global phenomena of significant importance.

[Kid Dynamite 7030]

Alcohol withdrawal, someone said earlier... Didn't think she was a boozer.

Sad if true. It only takes a few days to get alcohol fully out of your system, but if you do it cold turkey it can cause a fatal fit

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3894]

The poor mites she has left behind.

[Rob W 0]

Very sad - christ - only 25 with two small kids

[Monroe Transfer 0]

Very sad.

And it's not her fault at all, but the coverage is a bit of a joke.

Good Guardian piece on it:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/apr/08/peaches-geldof-national-newspapers

Peaches Geldof – was the coverage by newspapers, and TV, over the top?




The sudden death of a young woman, especially the daughter of a man as famous as Bob Geldof and with a history of family tragedy, was bound to be a headline event.

When news broke that Peaches Geldof had died, aged 25, the Sky News presenter momentarily floundered. Similarly, the BBC's news channel had some unusually nervous moments.

What followed was a couple of hours of vacuous, and sometimes embarrassing, interviews with "commentators" who endlessly repeated that it was a tragedy, that it echoed the early death of her mother, Paula Yates, and that Peaches had led an unconventional life. Twitter was scanned for quotable quotes.

She was variously described as a journalist, TV presenter, DJ, model, "fashion icon", mother of two, twice-married. There were also vague references to her being "too thin".

The story led the main evening news programmes, pushing down the order developments in Ukraine, the Maria Miller controversy and the Oscar Pistorius trial. It also garnered much more coverage than the death of 93-year-old "legendary" film star Mickey Rooney.

Meanwhile, newspapers were able to prepare their news reports, analyses, picture research and tributes without the difficulty of sitting in front of a camera.

Most editors decided that the TV news shows were right to give the Peaches Geldof story top billing. Some devoted their entire front page to it, such as the Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Star and Metro.

In so doing, they overturned their previous plans to give pictorial pride of place to the Duchess of Cambridge and her son in Australia.

Almost every other paper (with the notable exceptions of The Independent and the Financial Times) carried front page pictures and articles about Peaches.

Every editor, I noted, avoided the temptation to speculate on the cause of her death, respectfully repeating the statement issued by the police.

Most of the articles nosed off on Bob Geldof's statement, and the headline writers (at the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail) also relied on his words: "We are beyond pain."

I thought Metro's front page bordered on tastelessness. It used the picture Peaches had posted on Twitter of herself, as a baby, in her mother's arms with the headline, "Together again." The Sun did roughly the same inside, using the same picture and the headline, "With mum."

The Sun, with seven pages, devoted most space to the story. But its main articles were readable and, in the circumstances, reasonable pieces of work. It stuck, in the main, to facts.

Elsewhere, there were instances of speculation about her state of mind, such as the Mail's piece, ""She never got over losing Paula at 11", but it was a sensible assessment of what Peaches had said and written about the subject.

By far the most surprising article was the Telegraph's formal obituary, which was an excellent piece of work given the available time frame. Although it was placed below the one for Mickey Rooney, it was longer and the contrast between the two illustrated the nature of modern celebrity as opposed to that of old Hollywood.

Peaches, it began, "was a journalist, model and television presenter. But her chief occupation was being Peaches Geldof, daughter of the celebrities Bob Geldof and Paula Yates. This was by no means an easy task."

It went on to describe the progress of a young woman raised in the shadow of celebrified parents, one of whom died when she was 11. In trying to come to terms with fame, she struggled to find both a role for herself and an anchor for her life, as her dabbling with various religions appeared to show. Of all the articles in today's national newspapers, it was the best read.

Inevitably, we are bound to ask why a 25-year-old woman should engender so much coverage. What is it about our 2014 news values that dictated such a response?

Yes, celebrity, is at its heart. It is also the case that when people die young and unexpectedly the uniqueness of the event affects the coverage.

But when we stand back from this in, say, a year's time, it is highly likely that we journalists will reflect on whether the media response was over the top.

 

[Tom 14011]

I wasn't being entirely serious. If the media were to accurately portray her they would say that she was a talentless pisshead who but for her parents' fame and wealth would likely be a single mother of two living off benefits. However, she's dead so no one is allowed to say that.

[Li3nZ 1]

Sad if true. It only takes a few days to get alcohol fully out of your system, but if you do it cold turkey it can cause a fatal fit

Aye, think it takes some pretty major boozing before hand though. Was she a big drinker, no idea but had the impression she wasn't in the Amy Winehouse league. Just what I heard but will find out soon anyway!

Edited April 8, 2014 by Li3nZ

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3894]

Just another junkie then.

 

Poor bloody kids.

[ewerk 30616]

Silly fucking girl, you think she'd have learnt something from her mother's death.

 

Strange though that nothing was found at the scene, looks like this one might run.

[catmag 337]

The Times are reporting a heroin OD but the inquest doesn't actually open until this afternoon. Such a horrible, pointless waste if true though. Hard to believe that any of her daughters would touch drugs after what happened to their mother.

[trophyshy 7083]

I'm sorry but I have to wonder if Bob drives them to it.

[Monkeys Fist 42456]

As in, " Dad I need some scag, can I have a lift?"

[Gemmill 44888]

I'm sorry but I have to wonder if Bob drives them to it.

Certainly the common denominator.

[Dr Gloom 21924]

Why her death is everyone's business. Nice satirical analysis

 

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/05/01/the-cause-of-peaches-geldofs-death-is-everyones-business/

[Tom 14011]

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