CAROLINE WHO ?

Who on earth was Caroline Flack ?

The media seems to be full of a story about this person killing herself and has turned the event into a front page tragedy. As far as I can gather, never having heard of the woman before, she was the presenter of a particularly crude and unsavoury television programme, one of the awful "reality shows" which are actually nothing of the sort. In truth, the programme that she fronted was aimed at the moronic masses and was little more than an excuse for crudity and generally disgusting behaviour.

I've also seen that Flack had recently been in trouble over an assault on her boyfriend and was being prosecuted for it. Following her suicide, the authorities have been criticized by some for taking this action and have tried to present Flack as a victim; how they've arrived at such a judgement is a mystery. Flack was wealthy and famous, at least in the circles in which she moved. If she couldn't ultimately cope with the life she created for herself and then pursued, why is that worthy of blanket media coverage ?

The simple answer is that Flack was a "media celebrity" and the media loves nothing more than to celebrate or commiserate over its own and their triumphs and tragedies. No doubt there have been other suicides over the last few days and weeks, suicides of people who had none of Flack's advantages or success but which the media has ignored as being of no interest. Some of these may well have been far more tragic and have had far greater consequences than Flack's over-hyped demise, but they have been deemed to be of 'no interest'.

I despair. People like Flack live the high life but expect sympathy and support when it goes wrong. The rest of us just have to get on with life whatever it throws at us. Good riddance to Caroline Flack, no doubt there'll be another blousy bimbo along to take her place any minute now.