A fate worse than death: is Jade Goody the new candle in the wind?

IT SAYS something about the news values of many of the London-based tabloids that on Monday they splashed the latest twist in the Jade Goody saga as their main front page lead, not the murders of the two soldiers in Antrim.

What kind of news values are these, dare we ask? What will it take to move her off? Nuclear war? Some other celebrity falling gravely ill?

Those that still ran with Jade on Tuesday following the Craigavon murder will claim the news came in after they went to press. How convenient. They know their readers, one assumes.