Michael Jackson has just died...

[Devastatin Dave]

One of the world's most famous and biggest entertainer has died. Inflammatory statement removed. SF
So what will be his legacy?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Is this a joke, or are you just not bothering with a link?

[Crazed Rabbit]

It's real.*

CR
*expect link decay

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Seems so: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ (BBC News Frontpage).

[Beefy187]

Didn't like what he was doing these days, but...
Still a big fan of few of his song.

Rest in peace

[Lemur]

DevDave, you are a day late and a dollar short.

And your thread doesn't even have Captain Eo videos. For shame.

[Ice]

Well, according the Associated Press and LA Times hes dead.

[GeneralHankerchief]

ABC News had it as well.

[Adrian II]

One of the world's most famous and biggest entertainer has died. Removed as in OP. SF.

So what will be his legacy?

Can you at least hold the innuendo till he's buried? This is not Usenet and we have rules here. I found it very, very hard to stick to them in certain cases, but I did so out of respect for other people.

Death --> mourning --> burial --> criticism.

In that order.

Here, here!

[Reenk Roink]

Shocking really...

Michael was probably the greatest entertainer ever. At least in my books. Thoughts and prayers to his family.

I will now go listen to Thriller...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Considering he's been living in a fishbowl since the age of 10 may he finally find the peace and serenity that has eluded him for most of his life.

Don't just listen to Thriller, watch it.

[InsaneApache]

What a mixed up bloke.

[LittleGrizzly]

Death --> mourning --> burial --> criticism.

What he said.

As i said in the other thread, he was a bit of an odd charachter and will certainly be remembered for a long time to come. RIP MJ.

[Sheogorath]

The President of Coca Cola is now the King of Pop.

Rest in Peace, MJ. Snide comment removed. SF.

[miotas]

Hehe, even us aussies have been hearing about it.

Michael Jackson; Snide comment removed. SF. Rest in peace you poor tortured soul.

[KukriKhan]

Can you at least hold the innuendo till he's buried? This is not Usenet and we have rules here. I found it very, very hard to stick to them in certain cases, but I did so out of respect for other people.

Death --> mourning --> burial --> criticism.

In that order.

Indeed. Verily, my friend.

You fellas save your wisecracks for after he's in the ground. Show a little class.

[Devastatin Dave]

Indeed. Verily, my friend.

You fellas save your wisecracks for after he's in the ground. Show a little class.

Nah, miotas has the best line so far...

Again i ask what will be his legacy. I'm thinking his star power will overcome his perversions. Who will take his place as the "King of Pop"? I don't even know if its possible...

Hey, for all the geezers on this thread, is this similar to the death of Elvis? I was 2 then and still have faint memeories of it.

[Xiahou]

So yeah...
I got in and queued up Special Report (the only FoxNews show I watch) on my DVR. What's on? Michael Jackson is dead- yeah, I already heard that... so I fast forward. Five minutes- Geraldo is reminiscing about Jackson. More fast forwarding, Greta is talking about Jackson. Next up, they're interviewing some cardiologist asking him how Jackson may have died- no one knows yet, but let's speculate about it for 15mins. More fastforwarding... the hour long show has ended. I click over to live TV and put on FNC- a full 2 hours after Special Report was supposed to start, and they're still talking about Michael Jackson, so I turn the TV off.

What the hell? We have election related violence in Iran, rising tensions with North Korea, Congress is considering a massive healthcare reform package, tomorrow Congress is set to take up a global warming bill, oh and some train wreck of a celebrity died. What deserves wall to wall coverage on the news networks? The dead celebrity- of course. What a sorry state our media is in.

[miotas]

Nah, miotas has the best line so far...

Again i ask what will be his legacy. I'm thinking his star power will overcome his perversions. Who will take his place as the "King of Pop"? I don't even know if its possible...

Hey, for all the geezers on this thread, is this similar to the death of Elvis? I was 2 then and still have faint memeories of it.

I doubt it was like elvis, he died pretty suddenly, with michael jackson its more of a "he lasted this long?" type thing.

[miotas]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

So yeah...
I got in and queued up Special Report (the only FoxNews show I watch) on my DVR. What's on? Michael Jackson is dead- yeah, I already heard that... so I fast forward. Five minutes- Geraldo is reminiscing about Jackson. More fast forwarding, Greta is talking about Jackson. Next up, they're interviewing some cardiologist asking him how Jackson may have died- no one knows yet, but let's speculate about it for 15mins. More fastforwarding... the hour long show has ended. I click over to live TV and put on FNC- a full 2 hours after Special Report was supposed to start, and they're still talking about Michael Jackson, so I turn the TV off.

What the hell? We have election related violence in Iran, rising tensions with North Korea, Congress is considering a massive healthcare reform package, tomorrow Congress is set to take up a global warming bill, oh and some train wreck of a celebrity died. What deserves wall to wall coverage on the news networks? The dead celebrity- of course. What a sorry state our media is in.

Ha. That sucks. I only just caught it because I happened to watching at the right moment. It got about 10 minutes of coverage over a 3 hour morning show here.

[Samurai Waki]

Alright, a few days to go, and people will have all but forgotten him. Thank god.

[Reenk Roink]

So yeah...
I got in and queued up Special Report (the only FoxNews show I watch) on my DVR. What's on? Michael Jackson is dead- yeah, I already heard that... so I fast forward. Five minutes- Geraldo is reminiscing about Jackson. More fast forwarding, Greta is talking about Jackson. Next up, they're interviewing some cardiologist asking him how Jackson may have died- no one knows yet, but let's speculate about it for 15mins. More fastforwarding... the hour long show has ended. I click over to live TV and put on FNC- a full 2 hours after Special Report was supposed to start, and they're still talking about Michael Jackson, so I turn the TV off.

What the hell? We have election related violence in Iran, rising tensions with North Korea, Congress is considering a massive healthcare reform package, tomorrow Congress is set to take up a global warming bill, oh and some train wreck of a celebrity died. What deserves wall to wall coverage on the news networks? The dead celebrity- of course. What a sorry state our media is in.

Well, I've personally been watching the news for stuff on MJ. Whenever they switch to another topic I switch the channel. Different tastes I guess...

The coverage shouldn't be extremely surprising though, Michael Jackson was/is huge. I wasn't even born when Thriller was released and I like him.

It all started when I went to a friends house sometime in 1996 and played Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. That game and later his music videos were and still are among the coolest things I ever saw.

Good times, thanks for the memories MJ.

[CountArach]

What the hell? We have election related violence in Iran, rising tensions with North Korea, Congress is considering a massive healthcare reform package, tomorrow Congress is set to take up a global warming bill, oh and some train wreck of a celebrity died. What deserves wall to wall coverage on the news networks? The dead celebrity- of course. What a sorry state our media is in.

Exactly this. Should this get a cursory comment in the media? I suppose so, as he did mean a lot to some people, but the amount of coverage this is getting is far beyond that of actual news items that will impact far more people far more deeply.

[Tratorix]

Exactly this. Should this get a cursory comment in the media? I suppose so, as he did mean a lot to some people, but the amount of coverage this is getting is far beyond that of actual news items that will impact far more people far more deeply.

This just in, Modern media priorities skewed. News at eleven after ten hours of Micheal Jackson coverage.

[seireikhaan]

Rest in peace, Mr. Jackson.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Exactly this. Should this get a cursory comment in the media? I suppose so, as he did mean a lot to some people, but the amount of coverage this is getting is far beyond that of actual news items that will impact far more people far more deeply.

Look at this video produced by The Washington Post, featuring real reporters. If you have any lingering respect for DC journalists that will be quickly annihilated.

But equally revealing is their self-glorifying and delusional belief that only establishment media reporters are sufficiently Serious to be entitled to ask the President questions -- even as they fill Press Conferences with petty, vapid questions and otherwise endlessly reveal themselves to be substance-free and frivolous. Along those lines, The Washington Post claimed that "budgetary constraints" played a role in the firing of actually serious journalist Dan Froomkin, yet The Post spends money to produce and promote things like the below-posted video from "reporters" Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza that has to be seen to be believed. Be forewarned: many will consider the video too petty to bother posting and virtually everyone will find it painfully irritating to watch. I agree with those assessments, but there is still something about it -- the oozing smugness, the view of politics as a juvenile game, the desperation to be above it all and too sophisticated to care, the total lack of self-awareness in failing to realize how embarrassingly unfunny it is -- that makes it a tour de force in illustrating what and who so much of the Washington media really are:

Not directly related, but a plain view of DC media types. Probably has something to do with the incessant coverage of Jackson's death.

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[CountArach]

Look at this video produced by The Washington Post, featuring real reporters. If you have any lingering respect for DC journalists that will be quickly annihilated.

I forced myself to keep going after 58 seconds and I got to 2 minutes, but that was all I could take. Truly one of the worst things on the internet

EDIT: And I'm always pleased to see you quoting Greenwald.

[LittleGrizzly]

Maybe we should make a seperate thread for criticisms of the shallow media, this thread, at least in theory should be about paying respects to a man who died and is not even in his grave yet.

[CountArach]

Maybe we should make a seperate thread for criticisms of the shallow media, this thread, at least in theory should be about paying respects to a man who died and is not even in his grave yet.

Surely that is what the replica thread in the Frontroom is for?

[Devastatin Dave]

Surely that is what the replica thread in the Frontroom is for?

Exactly, in this thread I have given SF fits and lots of stuff to edit. SF