Rolling Stone & Moss

Just when I thought that the saga the press have made about Kate Moss had concluded, I came upon a report that the Church of Scientology has offered her help with her drug problems. That she is rich and has a high public profile is not the reason behind this act of charity. Yeah – right.
I see it as yet another example of the power of the press. Kate was outed by the Daily Mirror who got into an area where things are normally too busy to tolerate anyone not directly involved in things. Obviously, it was just coincidence that a few months previously, she had won a fair sum in a libel case against that rag when they alleged she was a user of drugs. That element of schadenfreude which lives in us all was instrumental in ensuring that a media panic started it’s run. She was depicted as the poor little rich girl who had sacrificed her career because she was besotted with, and under the malign influence of, some 92nd rate entertainer who had not even had a career. Once she had stumbled on the drugs story, her supposed downfall was hastened by revelations of sex orgies.
Suppose we look at some of the background in more detail. She started out at as a young teenager. She rapidly became the first of what we now choose to call super-models. The “would not even get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day” brigade. She was captured on film by the very top photographers – all of whom declared her as the thorough professional of whom it was impossible to take a poor shot. That has not changed – her working life is without complaint.
So, what is the complaint? Those people who paid her some £8 million per year to headline their products, thought she was a bad role model. Leave aside the sex claims – the majority of her young admirers would have given their eye teeth to do 3 in a bed with Jude Law – and think back about drug use. She was the model who use came under some criticism when it was suggested that she was being used to depict ‘drug-chic’. Her whole image at that time was of a seemingly anorexic woman wasted on drugs. Yet, this same person was the one signed up to headline campaigns by those who now shy back in fright.
And whence cometh this fear of association with drugs? Does anyone really think that she is the only attractive (but bow-legged) female who enjoys the Columbian marching powder? I have been to events where one would think that the queues for toilet cubicles were indicative of massive food poisoning or widespread diarrhoea. Even my jaundiced opinion of the young of today fails to accept that they work on the basis of “Oh. Kate does that. I’ll have to have a go” If their minds did work at that level, we would need the whole of CPS to deal with Jordan and her influence.
So, rather than allow things to be superseded by some other inconsequential ‘drama’. We have the Commissioner of the Met. Announcing a inquiry. This will drag out the media interest and yet more discussion of the pros and cons will ensure. The ‘Establishment’ will pontificate and this on it’s own will cause the youngsters to side with Moss.
I do not see her as having the degree of influence that is alleged. I certainly would not risk investing any of my money in any campaign that relies upon her have a good effect on any large number of people. If she cannot influence for good, what effect would she have as a role model for bad behaviour?
I do, however, admit that I might think about spending $9,999 to keep her in bed.