Thursday, April 22, 2004

More evidence that Jim Shembri (the man who gave Mystic River five stars) is a clueless hack. In his Logies write up in this morning's Green Guide, he spent about one third of the piece chastising Delta Goodrem for developing a new "talk-to-the-hand attitude, which was not only unbecoming, it was downright rude". All because Delta, in his eyes, fobbed off cancer-related questions from Eddie McGuire with a simple "I'm just here to enjoy the evening". That's attitude? And unbecoming? YOU suck Jim Shembri. I'm sure Delta's now ready to stop talking about her illness and get on with the rest of her life. She has no obligation to discuss her health just because she received "so much sympathy and support", as Shembri suggested. I'm sure that people who did offer sympathy are simply happy she's well. It's a strange thing to think that she has obligation to the Australian public. Additionally, surely Delta should get credit for being open about her treatment (not that she had to be) for the past year. If she did keep bringing the whole cancer thing up, I'm sure there'd be columns in the Green Guide talking about how Delta's been "milking" her illness for commercial gain. For the record, all that she's basically ever said about her illness was that "I'm sick, a lot of people are sicker, and I hope this brings awareness to the disease". The media's milked her situation, not her. So, if Jim Shembri's trying to start the inevitable backlash, I think he should realise how "unbecoming" he seems as he tries to read rudeness into a desire to move on.

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