So I believe from the news yesterday and today. There has just been a little bit of coverage of his death.
Now I will admit to being no fan of Michael Jackson. Indeed I hated his music and mocked him as a freak and a paedophile. (Indeed for years I had my wife convinced that among his various cosmetic surgeries he’d had his balls cut off to enable him to sing higher notes.)
However, even I’ve found the coverage of his death a tad on the morbid side. It started out yesterday when pictures of his dead body on a stretcher being taken to an ambulance were all over the news. Today has topped that with the news on the radio playing the tape of the 911 call from his house. I really fail to see the news value in both of these. Yes we know he died, yes we know there would have been a medical emergency, but do we really need to hear it in detail and see pictures of him dead?
Jackson’s death does not really surprise me. I’ve long thought he would die early and quite likely by his own hand. Whether the latter is the case remains to be seen, but speculation is already that prescription drugs played a part. Accident or deliberate?
I was saying to someone last night that in many ways, Michael Jackson should have died 15 years or so ago, before he turned into a somewhat sad figure of ridicule, and before his troubles with accusations of inappropriate conduct with young boys. I don’t think I’m alone in this view. Consider all the tributes and obituaries in the media about him yesterday and today and you’ll see much more like this:
which is clearly how people would prefer to remember him, rather than this:
the bizarre weirdo he became.
On the subject of the morbid fascination with Jackson’s health I found this amusing. In particular the promise of updates on the state of his health.
Well I’ve got news, his current health status will not be changing any time soon!
Meanwhile, in other, clearly far less important news, 11 people were killed in a bombing in Baghdad yesterday, which follows 78 people being killed on Wednesday and another 73 a few days earlier.
I prefer to remember him until Thriller. All the mawkish coverage is truly nauseating. And yes, he is still dead.
well at least he gave birth(influence) to great music talents.
You summed that up well. And I looked at the pictures (blush)
PS Farrah Fawcett died too. A brave and painful death, why does the news seem to forget that.
xx
Baghdad? What’s Baghdad? Michael Jackson is dead, dontcha know?
Its still hard to believe. I like to remember him the way he was moonwalking in 1983 at the Grammys!
there would be no other King of Pop like Michael Jackson. he would always be the King.
Michael Jackson would still be remembered as the only King of Pop. We would surely miss him.
I think your blog “my big world of crap” is apt for you since this post is full of crap and you are full of shit too.
Seriously at least Michael Jackson was crowned King of Pop for his music – what have you done? Other than bring out this crap blog of yours – at least people care for the fact that he is dead :p
Michael Jackson will be the greatest pop singer in the whole world. Everyone will miss him.
I agree. Good night sweet prince
i could say that Michael Jackson is a living legend when it comes to pop music. he would be surely missed by most of us.
Michael Jackson will be larger in death than he ever was in life! Think about it…his estate sold more music and memorabilia in the days after his death than in the year preceding it. Whatever our personal opinion is of him…he brought us a genre of music that will be very difficult to erase.
i idolize Michael Jackson because of his great achievement in the Pop Music. farewell King of Pop.
i am already a great fan of Michael Jackson ever since i was just a little kid. i would really miss the King of Pop -
Michael Jackson would always be the best popstar ever. i love all his songs and his live concerts.
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Michael Jackson is truly the King of Pop. He made a lot of great songs in the area of Pop Music. His death is a great loss to the music industry.
Michael Jackson is one of the greatest singer in our time. He is really the King of Pop and we would really miss this great person,