The Sydney Morning Herald‘s bar measuring taste and decency seems to have dropped another level. Surely they don’t think it appropriate to link a story about an actress believed to have committed suicide to an Opinion article entitled “What kind of happiness to pursue?” — an article written by Caroline West who just happens to be speaking on the subject of happiness at the Sydney Writer’s Festival, of which SMH just happens to be a Major Partner?
The tile on the front page linking to the story about Lucy Gordon’s apparent suicide followed by a link titled “Happiness”, and classing it as “related coverage” on the page with Caroline West’s article leaves me just about speechless.
Wow. That’s really creepy. Although post Heath Ledger, I’m not suprised in how the untimely death of a celebrity actor, through suicide or not, is used by the media and the studios to promote…anything at all.