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Who else is sickened by the amount of time and space which the media have devoted to Michael Jackson? What a shameless exploitation of a death for readers and ratings. And I’d like to know where most of his celebrity ”friends” on stage today were when the singer was in legal and financial trouble? What a bunch of camera-hogging hypocrites. It’s just wrong, wrong, wrong.
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The only thing worse than all the media coverage… all the people whining about the amount of media coverage. Get over it. That’s the world we live in these days, where anyone (including hypocrites) can twitter and have blogs about industry gossip.
the coverage for the memorial today better be the end of it.
i’m stuck watching david spade doing stand-up on comedy central as every other freakin’ channel is covering staples center.
that’s the real tragedy right there.
good call, nikki.
the jackson brothers in the ‘white glove’ tribute really threw me over the edge. leeches.
I LOVE YOU, I READ YOU ALL THE TIME. BUT YOU ARE BEING A LITTLE TASTELESS TO SAY THIS RIGHT NOW. CLEARLY TEN DAYS AGO YOU MADE A POINT OF TELLING US IN NOT SO MANY WORDS HOW YOU “WEREN’T GOING TO COVER THIS CIRCUS.” NOW YOU ARE COMING OFF COMPLETELY RUDE.
Even more disgusting is the gushing and lack of objectivity on CNN. Analysts comparing MJ to Mozart, calling him “bigger than Sinatra, Elvis and The Beatles combined”, declaring him a “Civil Rights figure”, and none of it unchallenged, in fact met with agreement from Soledad O’Brien. Only Anderson Cooper seemed uncomfortable and willing to occasionally challenge the shameless agenda being pushed by CNN’s own analysts. No mention of the civil settlements to his victims, no mention of his drug addiction. Instead non-stop babble about how Michael Jackson is the most figure of the last century.
Journalism is dead.
Thank you.
yes – i am completely over hte rectification of saint michael. and my biggest, biggest beef is that the city of LA is funding the security, traffic control, etc. to a MINIMUM estimate of $4million. the Jackson’s chose Satples Center for their venue, this is their expense. Offensive for a city that cancelled summer school.
The spotlight on LA will bring money to LA. Plain and sadly simple the economics of MJ’s death are a big plus for LA. Imagine if he had passed in London. Here, in LA, people now are flocking here, and while not all millionaires they are spending money. Enough? Turn the channel (PBS didn’t cover) or change the radio. Land of the free and the freaks. No one will have the career he had, not in our lifetimes.
sounds like you’re either jealous or just as big of a prick as the congressman from NY. When you’re bigger than Elvis, this is acceptable. Think about it Nikki, how many people in the world have touched so many people in so many different ways? There isn’t too many that have had an impact like he has which to me justifies this media non-sense. Do I like it or care, hell no but I am not ignorant towards it like you clearly are. Do you think I’m going to enjoy my runs around downtown today? Do you see me bitching and complaining like a lil’ 2 year old girl? Do you ever stop to think that some people might be tired of the biased bull shit and other random crap you post on your site? Fucking women!
It’s ridiculous. As my good friend @kyle_newman just posted on twitter, “how cool would it be if MJ just got up, started dancing and kicked off his tour as a zombie…and this was just one BIG publicity stunt”
The bad news is that the MJ story dwarfs a U.S.A./Russia summit meeting. The good news is that it pushes John and Kate off of the covers.
Is it really ‘shameless exploitation’ or just another slow news day in media land (which BTW is your turf, too)? And it’s Hollywood, babe, hypocrisy is the name of celebrity is just part of the game.
I think you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Michael Jackson is dead and this is the 24 hour news cycle. People are craving information and they are providing it.
Michael’s children will appreciate the media send off when they are old enough to comprehend who their father really was.
What the hell could Berry Gordy or Brooke Shields do about his legal and financial trouble? And what makes you think that any help they might have offered him would be disclosed as publicly as their tributes to him? It’s not very smart of you to be sick of the media fascination on the day of his memorial service, that’s for sure. Did you think the news outlets would be covering a talent agency merger instead? If this continues tomorrow, then your whining might have some relevance.
Thank god somebody has the balls to say this! Before he died people avoided him like the plague, but it is amazing how dieing is a “cure-all”.
True, but there are many people the genuinely miss MJ and enjoyed having a community to share the experience with. I’m glad the ceremony went the way it did. I’m only saddened that LA felt they should close out the fans. Reminiscent of the police state in moonwalker.
Doing my best to ignore it as much as I possibly can. I am not sorry this freak is dead.
Yup – gross. His popularity is being horribly overstated by the media, as evidenced by the fact that about 10 people showed up outside Staples – so much for the much touted ‘up to a million’. The dude stopped being relevant 20 years ago. They should have held the funeral after ‘Bad’
Oh shut up. I’m so sick of people complaining about the coverage. It will go away soon. Just quit whining. Jesus.
if there were a “like” button, I’d click it. Repeatedly.
Are you really surprised by this? Exploitation is as American as apple pie.The media want to use Michael Jackson’s death for rating purposes, celebrities want to use it for camera time, and his father wants to promote his record company.Welcome to the world, enjoy it for what it’s worth.
I’m sickened by the fact that I suffered through 90 minutes without a single appearance from Emmanuel Lewis.
I agree that the media coverage has been self-serving, but watching the memorial actual made me remember how talented the guy was. Although I had thought that he was a freak at best and a molester at worst, I think the memorial will leave me with a more favorable view of him. As a parent, the daughter’s short statement at the end broke my heart.
Not to mention he diddled kids.
No one gave two s#^s about this guy the last 15 years and suddenly everyone wants to feel like they’re a part of something big b/c he died. Everyone conveniently ignores the parts of his life that they dont like. Sure he had an impact on culture and music, but how can you separate the crazy kid-diddler from the musician? His legacy has been that of “great musician goes bat-s$t insane” and now everyone wants to ignore it. Everyone’s talking about how he had an impact on their childhood. Why dont you go ask all those kids who “slept over” at Neverland how he impacted THEIR childhood.
Shut up, Nikki.