Stuart Skinner
Sith Lord
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It has been a tough year with Celebrity deaths. My vinyl collection growing up was full of David Bowie, Prince and Wham, so to lose the artists all at such a young age was a sad time. But losing Carrie Fisher last week hit me pretty hard, for someone who I had spent perhaps 3 minutes with (and so glad I did), I can't quite understand why it's upset me so much. Just goes to show how much of a hold Star Wars has on me/us.
When Carrie passed, I thought I'd buy most of the papers the following day documenting her death. I was hoping for celebrations of her life, her work documented, photos and beautiful stories of her life. Instead all I read, in all papers not just the red tops, was her drug and alcohol addictions over the years, her failed relationships. In fact the Sun had managed in 24 hours to find a friend (or so called friend) of Carries to tell them they she THINKS Carrie had fallen off the wagon, and I emphasise the word thinks, Sun obviously covering themselves. The friend had also supplied a photo of Carrie on thanks giving with an empty beer bottle in the background. What does that prove? Someone was taken the photo, could the beer bottle possibly be theres, course not, lets state Carrie had fallen off the wagon because of an empty bottle of beer. Typical of such a worthless paper.
It wasn't just The Sun though, Express, Mirror, Mail were all equally as poor and the Times even touched on her dark past, making sure they stated she was hooked on coke during the filming of Jedi.
Yesterday my recycling went out and with it all the papers. We all know about Carries demons of the past it had been well documented over the years and shes always been open about it and spoke about it freely. I just find it such a sad state of affairs that when someone dies we can't just celebrate their life and rejoice their work and personality. Typical of the British press, all they give us time and time again is inflated negative bullshit.
When Carrie passed, I thought I'd buy most of the papers the following day documenting her death. I was hoping for celebrations of her life, her work documented, photos and beautiful stories of her life. Instead all I read, in all papers not just the red tops, was her drug and alcohol addictions over the years, her failed relationships. In fact the Sun had managed in 24 hours to find a friend (or so called friend) of Carries to tell them they she THINKS Carrie had fallen off the wagon, and I emphasise the word thinks, Sun obviously covering themselves. The friend had also supplied a photo of Carrie on thanks giving with an empty beer bottle in the background. What does that prove? Someone was taken the photo, could the beer bottle possibly be theres, course not, lets state Carrie had fallen off the wagon because of an empty bottle of beer. Typical of such a worthless paper.
It wasn't just The Sun though, Express, Mirror, Mail were all equally as poor and the Times even touched on her dark past, making sure they stated she was hooked on coke during the filming of Jedi.
Yesterday my recycling went out and with it all the papers. We all know about Carries demons of the past it had been well documented over the years and shes always been open about it and spoke about it freely. I just find it such a sad state of affairs that when someone dies we can't just celebrate their life and rejoice their work and personality. Typical of the British press, all they give us time and time again is inflated negative bullshit.
