My OperaSo farewell then Di... 'ang on a minute...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:22:01 PM
Look, I'm not trying to upset anyone but, she did die didn't she? About a decade ago. Lady Diana F. Spencer, previously also Princess of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall? I remember it well, the nation shut down for a fortnight. So why is she even now getting more publicity than Jordan, Posh & Becks, and that Docherty bloke's girl friend put together?
It wasn't a nice death, I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but a girl a couple of villages away from here died in an almost identical accident on the same night and it didn't even make the local press. A week later Mother Theresa died and it only earned about an inch of news columnage. The papers were still full of Diana. I was starting to really resent her. Radio stations were playing crap in recognition of the gravity of the event, except for our local yoof station, which for some reason started playing Steely Dan and soft rock, and TV programmes were getting cancelled or moved without a word of warning as events developed. Where did they find these developments? Two weeks later and she was still dead. It wasn't exactly news. It still isn't.
If we really want to remember Diana how's about doing something positive like banning drunk drivers from driving for life or developing cars that can't break the speed limit no matter how much the driver wants to? Just those two things would have kept both Diana and our local girl alive that night.
Then maybe Mother Teresa would finally have gotten the recognition she still deserves.
It wasn't a nice death, I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but a girl a couple of villages away from here died in an almost identical accident on the same night and it didn't even make the local press. A week later Mother Theresa died and it only earned about an inch of news columnage. The papers were still full of Diana. I was starting to really resent her. Radio stations were playing crap in recognition of the gravity of the event, except for our local yoof station, which for some reason started playing Steely Dan and soft rock, and TV programmes were getting cancelled or moved without a word of warning as events developed. Where did they find these developments? Two weeks later and she was still dead. It wasn't exactly news. It still isn't.
If we really want to remember Diana how's about doing something positive like banning drunk drivers from driving for life or developing cars that can't break the speed limit no matter how much the driver wants to? Just those two things would have kept both Diana and our local girl alive that night.
Then maybe Mother Teresa would finally have gotten the recognition she still deserves.
