Enough Already

[shipperx]

Michael Jackson died.  It was a surprise.  We didn't see it coming.  He used to be a megastar and then he grew progressively... odd.  We get it.  Enough. We don't need to hear about it 24/7 on every freaking channel or have tickets to his FUNERAL auctioned off.  It's morbid and bizarre (albeit, he may have liked it).  But, ENOUGH!  Move along.  Nothing left to see here.

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[spikewriter]

Spoke to the husband on my way to lunch - he counted 17 channels here in Los Angeles carrying the Jackson funeral. Seventeen. We've got the networks, of course, but all of the local channels are running it as well – save for two small indies that don't have news crews. They are running I Love Lucy and Perry Mason.

The husband is appalled, and I had to ask if he's ever looked at the coverage given Valentino's death and funeral and the William Desmond Taylor murder back in the 1920's. Proportionally, it really was as bad as this, which just goes to show that, sadly, the public market for gossip has not diminished over the years. The stuff is just more accessible now to a broader audience.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think it's human nature to make a spectacle of things. It just seems that with close to 100 tv channels, his death shouldn't be dominating 70 of them.