A bit late responding to this thread as I've been out for most of the day, so I'll respond to some of the posts that caught my attention:
In summary to all the people who say 54 is too young, please tell me how old was Jon Mannah once again?
Please lock this thread. Regardless of what someone has written in opinion pieces, they and their families (who are real people) don't deserve to have the potential vitriol to follow online.
Like she did for the Mannah family after he passed???
She surely didn't take into consideration the families of the people she tried to ruin the lives and careers of.
I'm not going to bag her out but I don't believe just because someone has died they automatically become off limits or were suddenly a great person. As said her and her grub mate Massoud had no issue digging the knife into the Mannah family.
As Vic just said just because she has passed away doesn't make her all of a sudden a great human being. She earned a living by slinging shit and bringing people down thats how it goes.
Classic example of dishing it out, yet cannot take it in return. If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.
hineyrulz, Vic Mackey and MilkShark have nailed the point spot on.
The "Eulogy Song" by Andrew Hansen from The Chaser nearly a decade ago sums things up quite appropriately.
I'm not one to normally speak ill of the dead, but I'll make an exception for her...
Wrote some shocking stories over the years that had personal consequences for some ( Jon Mannah's family comes immeadiately to mind) and was all to eager to do her News Ltd masters bidding by slanting her articles with what ever spin was required...
Hated RL with a passion and this came through in every beaten up off field drama that screamed at us from the inside backpage of the Tele every Saturday whilst forever blowing smoke about her beloved "Swannies"...
This.
I 100% feel for the Mannah family after they generously invited the Telegraph journos into their home during a very difficult time, only to get journalistic gutter thrown at them from Wilson/Massoud/Ritchie/Slothfield/Hooper et al., knowing that the innuendo and lies were going to equal more Telegraph sales.
Memory is fuzzy but I swear she wrote a piece when Fatty was off after his stunt accident and Sterlo took a couple of weeks off after on of his parents passed away saying that the Footy Show was better without them.
She totally lacked class on numerous occasions and that doesn't mean it gets conveniently forgotten because she's passed away. All the Vicky Kicky fans will have her on a fast track to sainthood.
If AFL introduces the 'immortals' concept the NRL has, they'll probably want her inducted as the first immortal.
But ultimately nothing changes the fact that Rebecca Wilson threw her soul away long before the cancer killed her.
Wilson profited from using freedom of speech to write articles that were knowingly built on lies. That's not an opinion, it's reality.
And now you would deny that same freedom of speech to the people who want Wilson remembered for who she truly was. Not the mythologized trailblazer, but the sleazy soulless hack who ruined people's lives for her own personal gain.
You may get your way and the moderators might lock the thread but it doesn't make you right.
If we can't call out Rebecca Wilson both in life and death for the monster she truly was then don't complain about the appalling state of journalism. Don't complain when people are exploited. Don't complain when greed trumps the common good.
Because that would be the ultimate hypocrisy.
You think Wilson deserves dignified silence. She should have lived a dignified life to deserve it.
Well said, docbrown.
