Liz Jones on Jo Yeates

[AB Editor]

Good afternoon,

I wondered if anyone had seen this: http://www.dailymail....l-police-website.html ?

Liz Jones decides to "retrace the footsteps" of Jo Yeates.

she provides us with a tasteless gem like: "I wish she had spent what were probably her last hours on earth somewhere lovelier. The food is awful."

Does this kind of "journalism" have any place in any newspaper? Or do you think there is value in it? If you were Paul Dacre would you continue to pay Liz for such tripe?

All the best,

Spare Ed

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[milly143]

Pointless tripe.

[murraymints]

usually I find Liz Jones quite amusing in a dry kind of way, however I must agree that piece was NOT in any way good taste

[sp1814]

I too read (about half of) this story and felt it was in fairly bad taste, and couldn't see the point of it.

Many of the responses to the story asked why it was printed in the first place.

Not good journalism.

[pastafreak]

I scanned a bit of that yesterday...and found little in the way of good journalism.

[Bbbananas]

Liz Jones is a very strange bod at the best of times.... My BF is often incensed by some of the things she writes. I find her...interesting... but completely self-absorbed, self-obsessed and out of touch with most 'real' women's lives.

[pastafreak]

I like her 'diary'...the sympathetic way she has written about her animals has had me in tears. Maybe she should stick to that.

[Bbbananas]

She definitely comes across as caring for, understanding and liking animals far more than she does humans,

[Sqad]

No, I cannot see anything wrong in it.....OK....not the best piece of journalism, but a human insight into the last few hours of the life of Jo Yates.

What came over to me was that, a life is lost, but life around goes on.

[pastafreak]

I think she's admitted to not caring all that much for humans.

[murraymints]

for someone who lets on she is so broke... she has quite a fancy lifestyle...or is the rock star financing?

[ludwig]

// Does this kind of "journalism" have any place in any newspaper? Or do you think there is value in it? If you were Paul Dacre would you continue to pay Liz for such tripe? //

No, No, and No.

[Count-A-Strong]

This is crass and insulting to her memory. Phrases such as
'leaving with carrier bags and expectation'
& 'I almost buy that upmarket pizza; the choice tells me Jo wanted a lovely life, something above the ordinary' would be fine in a peice of airport chic lit but not as some sort of twisted epitaph to someone she didn't know.

[Bbbananas]

If 'the rock star' has any sense, he'd get the hell out while he can.....

She does amuse and intruige me sometimes, and I don't disagree with all her musings, but the woman doesn't live in the real world.

[eyethenkyew]

The most macabre bit about the article is that this woman actually was paid not only to scribble it but also to try to retrace Jo's steps. How sick is that?

[MarkRae]

It's fairly simple, really... She writes what she writes, and her editor allows it to be printed, because that's what the Daily Mail readership wants to read. They buy their paper every morning knowing full well what they're going to get, the same way as anyone who buys a copy of The Sun and turns to page 3 knows what will be found there.

If you think that Liz Jones articles and/or topless women don't constitute news, then you're reading the wrong (news)paper...

[murraymints]

buy it for the crosswords???