can't say i was ever a fan of amy winehouse. aside from 'rehab' i am not sure i could pick out any of her songs if they were played for me. doubt anyone was shocked that she died so young.
oddly this isn't about ms winehouse.
what has caused me to write is to do with the need of people to be in the media and to appear to be in the 'know'.
just the other day i was chatting about how there are some stories you just don't tell, some tales you just keep schtum on. others you just don't elaborate on. we all have them. there are some people who seem to be able to go that extra step and tell you the full story regardless of the light it paints them in.
this is even more the case in the new 24-hour always on news cycle and television shows of the likes of jerry springer and jeremy kyle: everyone wants to be a celebrity and everyone thinks they have something interesting to say.
when a celebrity dies there appears to be no shortage of people who can come forward to saying something about the situation. so it is with amy winehouse where we can read that a neighbour thought he heard screams from her house 'like some weird sex game'. nice to be wise after the event. i wonder if he thought to phone the police, or even the sun newspaper.
or perhaps the person who reckoned she must have been dead awhile because her cat was behaving oddly in the morning. i am sure he will get his own cat talk show in the near future.
now i am prepared to admit that i might be being harsh but frankly if all you had done was listen to some screams and just turned up the sound on your tv then you really shouldn't telling the press anything as you just come across as a tit. and not a particulary nice one.
all i have learnt from this is that ms. winehouse didn't have very nice neighbours.
if ever a time to follow 'silence is golden' then this would have been the time.
oddly this isn't about ms winehouse.
what has caused me to write is to do with the need of people to be in the media and to appear to be in the 'know'.
just the other day i was chatting about how there are some stories you just don't tell, some tales you just keep schtum on. others you just don't elaborate on. we all have them. there are some people who seem to be able to go that extra step and tell you the full story regardless of the light it paints them in.
this is even more the case in the new 24-hour always on news cycle and television shows of the likes of jerry springer and jeremy kyle: everyone wants to be a celebrity and everyone thinks they have something interesting to say.
when a celebrity dies there appears to be no shortage of people who can come forward to saying something about the situation. so it is with amy winehouse where we can read that a neighbour thought he heard screams from her house 'like some weird sex game'. nice to be wise after the event. i wonder if he thought to phone the police, or even the sun newspaper.
or perhaps the person who reckoned she must have been dead awhile because her cat was behaving oddly in the morning. i am sure he will get his own cat talk show in the near future.
now i am prepared to admit that i might be being harsh but frankly if all you had done was listen to some screams and just turned up the sound on your tv then you really shouldn't telling the press anything as you just come across as a tit. and not a particulary nice one.
all i have learnt from this is that ms. winehouse didn't have very nice neighbours.
if ever a time to follow 'silence is golden' then this would have been the time.
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