Post by Budleigh on Apr 4, 2011 13:52:46 GMT
Piers Morgan is one of those 'celebrity' people I can take or leave.
I find him both mildly irritating and, at times, mildly amusing...
But his column in the Mail on Sunday this week really made me think about the so-called celebrity culture and the gilded cages these type of people live in.
Two comments, both some distance apart in the actual article, summed-up to me the growing idiocy of these people, and I do mean 'these people' as it would seem it is a club to which they all belong, entry for which involves both a certain attitude and disdain for the 'common-people' (witness our glorious England player Mr Rooney for a further example)
Morgan wrote the following referring to the recent miscarriage that Amanda Holden had the sad misfortune to endure:
"There can be few things worse for any woman than losing a baby so late in a pregnancy, even more so when you're in the public eye."
The implication being that the pain is worse for a 'celebrity' and therefore more compassion should be felt. As someone who has seen the effects of a late-miscarriage and the loss we had to endure, I can only say; what conceited arrogance from Morgan. The pain is no less because the woman isn't 'in the public eye', and to me shows what little thought these people have when considering others feelings and the absolute certainty with which they believe that life's misfortunes are somehow harder to bear for those of 'celebrity-status'.
Later in the article he then goes on to berate, at some length, Delta Air Lines in the States because due to 'bad weather conditions' at Minneapolis airport, the plane he was on mid-flight would be heading back to New York. This was going to make him late for the filming of the America's Got Talent show of which he was a judge, and wouldn't allow him enough time to reach the studio.
He then states, "I vented my wrath on Twitter for an hour".
Further problems at New York delayed a second flight which meant that, in Morgan's own words, "My Twitter rage knew no bounds. The gates of Hades will freezeth over before I ever darken your pitifully incompetent doors again".
At which point, quite unbelievably having seen his rant via this medium, Delta's chief marketing man sent a private plane to get him to his destination. Why just him? Did they not think that others on the delayed flight were as deserving, if not more?
And Piers Morgan's reply?
"Given that Delta had so far cost AGT a considerable sum of money I accepted the offer".
No they hadn't; he had cost them by not making sure he was at the right place in plenty of time. For something that important surely most people would've been in situ a day or so beforehand.
It also begs the question about the lack of importance he himself felt was attached to others who were delayed by that flight. It was all self-consuming.
The scenario that popped into my head at this point went as follows:
Morgan is in the airport having accepted this 'freebie' from Delta when he hears a sobbing to his side. Overhearing the man talking to someone trying to be of comfort it transpires that the gentleman in tears was trying desperately to get back to Minneapolis as his wife had been rushed to hospital, whereupon he had been contacted to tell him she'd had a miscarriage and lost their baby. Would Morgan have had any thought of giving up his free flight to this distraught man so he could speed his way to his wife's side? I doubt it very much, because as he has shown, this man's wife wouldn't be feeling real pain as she was not 'in the public eye'.
I had to re-read that piece twice to see if he really was that much of an arrogant, insensitive, bullying and selfish man.
And having done so I feel my my first impressions were correct.
I find him both mildly irritating and, at times, mildly amusing...
But his column in the Mail on Sunday this week really made me think about the so-called celebrity culture and the gilded cages these type of people live in.
Two comments, both some distance apart in the actual article, summed-up to me the growing idiocy of these people, and I do mean 'these people' as it would seem it is a club to which they all belong, entry for which involves both a certain attitude and disdain for the 'common-people' (witness our glorious England player Mr Rooney for a further example)
Morgan wrote the following referring to the recent miscarriage that Amanda Holden had the sad misfortune to endure:
"There can be few things worse for any woman than losing a baby so late in a pregnancy, even more so when you're in the public eye."
The implication being that the pain is worse for a 'celebrity' and therefore more compassion should be felt. As someone who has seen the effects of a late-miscarriage and the loss we had to endure, I can only say; what conceited arrogance from Morgan. The pain is no less because the woman isn't 'in the public eye', and to me shows what little thought these people have when considering others feelings and the absolute certainty with which they believe that life's misfortunes are somehow harder to bear for those of 'celebrity-status'.
Later in the article he then goes on to berate, at some length, Delta Air Lines in the States because due to 'bad weather conditions' at Minneapolis airport, the plane he was on mid-flight would be heading back to New York. This was going to make him late for the filming of the America's Got Talent show of which he was a judge, and wouldn't allow him enough time to reach the studio.
He then states, "I vented my wrath on Twitter for an hour".
Further problems at New York delayed a second flight which meant that, in Morgan's own words, "My Twitter rage knew no bounds. The gates of Hades will freezeth over before I ever darken your pitifully incompetent doors again".
At which point, quite unbelievably having seen his rant via this medium, Delta's chief marketing man sent a private plane to get him to his destination. Why just him? Did they not think that others on the delayed flight were as deserving, if not more?
And Piers Morgan's reply?
"Given that Delta had so far cost AGT a considerable sum of money I accepted the offer".
No they hadn't; he had cost them by not making sure he was at the right place in plenty of time. For something that important surely most people would've been in situ a day or so beforehand.
It also begs the question about the lack of importance he himself felt was attached to others who were delayed by that flight. It was all self-consuming.
The scenario that popped into my head at this point went as follows:
Morgan is in the airport having accepted this 'freebie' from Delta when he hears a sobbing to his side. Overhearing the man talking to someone trying to be of comfort it transpires that the gentleman in tears was trying desperately to get back to Minneapolis as his wife had been rushed to hospital, whereupon he had been contacted to tell him she'd had a miscarriage and lost their baby. Would Morgan have had any thought of giving up his free flight to this distraught man so he could speed his way to his wife's side? I doubt it very much, because as he has shown, this man's wife wouldn't be feeling real pain as she was not 'in the public eye'.
I had to re-read that piece twice to see if he really was that much of an arrogant, insensitive, bullying and selfish man.
And having done so I feel my my first impressions were correct.
