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Article: Monitor: The Murder Of Jill Dando Reflections on the widespread public grief following the killing of th e popular television presenter
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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The Guardian
SO MUCH has been said about television's curious power to create
intimacy among strangers that it takes a large shock to the system to
see how strong - and dangerous - that power can be. Several famous
women, from Steffi Graf to Madonna, have been the object of unwanted,
and ultimately deranged, attention from "fans"; maybe Jill Dando was
too. How else to explain how a woman who, by all accounts, had not
an enemy in the world, could be killed in broad daylight, and on her
own doorstep.
Evening
Standard
THE MURDER of Jill Dando is one of those rare events that sends a
chill and a shock through everyone who hears or reads of it. The
notion of this radiant, stunningly pretty woman ...