On the BBC Website today there is the sad news of the deaths of three Women.

Uma Ramalingam, a consultant obstetrician 42.

Barathi Ravikumar, a GP, and relative.

Peaches Geldof, celebrity, 25.

All three women leave the world too early, and as a father I am reminded of how fantastic my wife, as a mother is.

Think of Uma and Barathi.

But not Peaches???

Bandwagon

Come-come, she was a tv presenter, apparently.

Pity it wasn't the Kardashians

Peaches Geldof? Is that similar to Peaches Melba?

Whilst obviously it's incredibly sad for her family and friends, should the death of Peaches Geldof really have been the lead news item on the BBC News last night?

Of course it should. It's just like the trial of some guy in South Africa for murder, which we apparently are all avidly interested in due to him having no legs but being a good runner. Had his next door neighbour done exactly the same thing, you'd never have known but instead, those who decide such things decree that you shall have wall-to-wall coverage and you shall be interested.

Peaches Geldof was probably worthy of a headline simply given who her parents were, and it seems to be the case that people have a morbid fascination with "celebrity" so anyone remotely fitting that bill is "news". I feel sorry for the family. It is enough they have lost a young family member in such a sudden and tragic way, without having to face huge media intrusion, but as long as this sort of stuff sells media and generates clicks then it will only get worse.

Yep. It just irritates me when the BBC stoops to that level.
I have no problem with it being reported, it's just the prominence it's been given as though it's a very important story, when it's not. It's a minor piece of gossipy type news.
Also the piece the BBC did on her last night was so fawning and patronising. Describing her "passion for motherhood", so basically saying she loved her kids more than you ordinary people do.

This isn't a criticism of Peaches Geldof by the way, but a criticism of our awful media and how the BBC is being dragged down with them.

I was about to say it makes a change from a blow by blow account of the Oscar Pistuprious trial.

As for Peaches Geldof, I phoned some friends on mine when I heard the story break on the radio yesterday evening, simply because one of their daughters was an old school friend of Peaches. They were grateful to me for letting them know so they could then break it to their daughter. The upside was, they also asked me to call round so they could buy 4 boxes of fish & prawns

kerching

We got a railway line opening as lead story the other day, so yes, it probably should have been.