Jade Goody media coverage provokes mixed response from public

Many of the people interviewed, filmed a couple of days before Goody's death, thought it was sad that she suffered, but said that the media coverage had gone too far, pointing out that many other people have cancer.

Some people thought that there were positive benefits to the coverage such as raising awareness of cervical cancer and generating money for Jade Goody's sons.

One person described OK! magazine's tribute issue, published last week before Jade Goody's death, as "horrendous".

Jade Goody lost her battle with cervical cancer shortly after 3am on Sunday. The media paid tribute to Jade Goody today with pages of coverage and special supplements.

Headlines included "Mummy's in heaven", "At peace on Mother's day" and "My beautiful Jade is at peace".

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron also paid tribute to Jade Goody, marking the work she did to raise awareness of cervical cancer.

Footage of Jade Goody's wedding to Jack Tweed four weeks ago was aired on Living TV, which pulled in the channel's highest audience to date. OK! magazine achieved a bumper circulation of nearly 2m for its issue with exclusive coverage of the wedding, making it one of the magazine's biggest selling issues of all time.

Jade Goody's funeral will also be very public with giant screens televising proceedings inside the church to thousands of expected fans outside.