CNN wins the prize this morning with their lead headline: “Michael Jackson shared bond with ‘very dear friend Diana Ross’”.
Talk about ‘Dog bites man!” – that’s more like ‘Grass is green!’ or ‘Rain in Seattle!’ Well, scratch the latter because I hear they’re having a dry summer up there.
How long will this continue? This millennium? Next? Who knows? And to make matters worse, the MSM has no sense of humor about it. Why not brighten things up with heds like ‘Threesome! Jackson, Sanford and Edwards in secret tryst’ or ‘Jacko’s corpse stalks Elvis imitators on Hollywood Boulevard”? Oh, well, look on the bright side. Those of us who are news junkies and secretly suspect we have been wasting our time now have incentive to go elsewhere. Brush up your Shakespeare anyone? Or what about those dusty Mandarin flash cards?
MEANWHILE: Some non-Jacko news.
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1. Promoguy:Actually, I’m tired of it and wish they would put the guy in the ground already. I wonder if the onslaught of non information is great here in Los Angeles or the same around the country. My son who is on the LAPD was offered 15 hours of over time next week just for this crap. He has enough time and rank and is able to say NO WAY. Who the hell pays for that?
Roger, do you or Joe Jackson have the option on the life story.
Jul 3, 2009 - 8:09 am 2. David Thomson:The legacy media is lazy and ignorant. Michael Jackson’s death is a relatively easy story to report. Issues like the Iran crisis and cap and trade require some intellectual effort. It’s way too much work for both the journalists and their general audience.
Jul 3, 2009 - 9:19 am 3. Michael C Seaver:I got it Roger — I’m taking my Mandarin flash cards to the ballpark, watch a comforting game of baseball, and talk about the state of the world with the guy sitting next to me, don’t care who he is. I’ll get more out of that than continuing death wail. (In my secret jaded heart, I think this will continue until the debtors have been paid back.)
Jul 3, 2009 - 10:51 am 4. bzbee:Is your remote broken?
Jul 3, 2009 - 12:44 pm 5. Ted:I was hoping to escape the MSM obsession with MJ, then I saw your headline. Best I be moving on…
Jul 3, 2009 - 1:18 pm 6. BobWang:At least EJ hasn’t re-adapted “Candle in the Wind”
Jul 3, 2009 - 2:50 pm 7. Promoguy:Memo to BobWang-Not Yet
Jul 3, 2009 - 2:57 pm 8. Lightnin' Hopkins:Michael Jackson died? I guess it got lost in all of the obsessive Karl Malden coverage. Anderson Cooper just goes on and on about “Streetcar” and “On The Waterfront” night after night. Okay, we get it! He was comfortable in his own skin, and with his nose, and was also quite good in films like “All Fall Down” – let it go already! It’s July 3rd, aren’t you supposed to be in the Hamptons, or something?
Jul 3, 2009 - 4:12 pm 9. Barry Dauphin:The Jackson stuff is getting into Diana territory, but it will be over soon. He holds an perverse fascination over a segment of the population. His weirdness was bigger than his music.
Now folks can obsess about Palin’s resignation and what it means and why the question of what it is about doesn’t seem to have been answered by her statement.
Jul 3, 2009 - 8:01 pm 10. Wallace:Michael Jackson had talent and was a good entertainer, early in his career but in no way was a major lasting influence on music as were people like Elvis and The Beatles. Even the only televised new program I watch, Fox at the noon hour, was focusing on Michael today……I turned ti off. Fox of all outlets!
Jul 3, 2009 - 8:20 pm 11. George Atkisson:Yes, it is an easy story to cover. No one is going to challenge their coverage for being one sided.
It will be pushed as long as possible because it keeps Obama, Congress, Honduras, North Korea, Iran, National Health Care, and Cap and Trade out of the public eye.
Jul 5, 2009 - 8:38 am 12. eco delsol:Let’s get this funeral over with and get back to the business of LIVING!!!!!!!
Jul 6, 2009 - 8:12 pm 13. Wolla Dalbo:I saw on the web that Fox news was reporting that so few people showed up for the Michael Jackson memorial that people were out in front of the auditorium handing out free tickets to passersby, in hopes of filling up the auditorium. I wonder –early on–how high a price some people might have paid scalpers for their tickets?
Looked on Fox that was covering the service live and, sure enough, when the camera panned out over the audience you could see that many, many seats were empty in the cavernous auditorium. To be generous, I’d estimate that the auditorium was perhaps 50% filled.
Who wants to bet that because this development will not fit in with the MSM hype that all the world mourns Jackson, that the MSM will not comment on this situation, so that, looking back a few years from now, those who did not see what I saw will belive from MSM coverage that the hall was jammed to capacity?
Jul 7, 2009 - 11:40 am