The Great Jacksonian Debacle II
I find myself in the precarious position of defending the media circus surrounding the untimely death of Michael Jackson.
Unfortunately for us all, we live in a world in which the news cycle is never-ending. Program directors and producers have to keep interesting content on your TV screen literally 24 hours a day.
What? You’re not interested in Jacko’s death? Well, neither am I. And neither is anyone I know. But there are millions of people out there who are. Millions of people who never watch CNN, Fox News or MSNBC will stay glued to their television sets for hours every day for the next week so they can soak up every ounce of news coming out of this story. That’s a whole new audience that news channel advertisers never get a chance to see. Now they’ve got a fresh captive audience.
Well guess what, now the folks at CNN can charge just a little bit more for that 30 second spot at 6 p.m. on a Wednesday because the middle-aged white woman in Wisconsin who doesn’t know the difference between a bill and a law has decided to watch Anderson Cooper so she can find out what the 2nd autopsy said.
It’s unfortunate, yes. Especially since the House just passed the largest tax increase bill in the history of this nation (without reading or knowing the contents of the bill I might add). Instead of talking about how the thousands of coal miners in West Virginia are going to suddenly work at a wind farm in the mountains of Appalachia when the coal companies can’t afford the billions it’s going to take cap the very gas that I’m exhaling right now, we’re talking about a 50-year-old ex-black entertainer who finally collapsed under the pressure of being worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
But, someone’s going to profit from the ridiculous news coverage, and with that I have no problem.
I do have a problem with people who are obsessed with a man who was a good dancer, a decent singer and shared his bed with 13-year-old boys.
Drew
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argued well- i underestimated the ability of the journalist to highlight the profiteering of the media.
pointcounterpointless - June 29, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Many will profit by his death which is a sad thing…he will make more money by death than he did while living! He is more than $400 million in debt…even though in debt people still credited him money b/c he was Michael Jackson!! Have you ever read about his childhood while performing as “The Jackson Five” His father was harsh and brutal with a belt…he particually focused on Michael with his harshness…made fun of him, spanked him when he messed up at rehersals, etc…..that plus a nonexistant childhood…you can imagine how those things would torment a little boy! Sure , he was messed up as an adult….the man needed help…why did his family not try to get him help in the years before he died??? They may have tried…he surely balked at there attempts….but as his family who lived off of his money they should have tried harder! It’s not his fans that are making a circus of his death…it’s the press!!! All about ratings and money…have memorials for him and then just let him rest in peace….maybe his children will have more of a normal life being raised by his grandmother…if there “mother” resurfaces now it will only be for the money they represent…surely, no judge would grant her custody of the children she never wanted before Michaels death!! I feel very sad for those children…they loved there father…he was not Michael Jackson to them…just Daddy!
mother - June 30, 2009 at 3:07 am