Tday Michael Jackson is being buried. For almost two weeks the world has been subjected to wall to wall coveraage of his life and death. If the Pope died or the President would the coverage be any more intrusive and extensive than it has been for Jackson?
Yet Jackson – musically talented that he was – has had no hit records for years — since The Thriller iay more n 1981. For years he has been virtually a recluse – famous for being famous not for anying he has done.
On the darker personal side, Jackson is a self-admitted peophile sleeping in be with small children.
What does the coverage of his death tell us? Does it ssay more about our vorerystic society than it does about Jackson?
Is the coverage of Michael Jackson over the top?
What do you think?
Pedophiles molest children, Neil. Jackson only slept with them. All kinds of people sleep with children without molesting them.
There’s a terrifically funny Twitter live-tweeting the spectacle: https://twitter.com/brandingexpert
Too much has already been said, written, insinuated and never proven about the guy’s pedophily. That 23 million settlement smelled bad but…Let the poor retch rest in peace and may he be soon forgotten. Must be a slow news period with only North Korea, Honduras and Iran, not to mention Xing Jiang to worry about. So all the media really went for the essential selling matter:sensationalism and voyeurism.