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Celebrities At The End

AliveInHim Wrote: Jul 02, 2009 8:00 AM

I am sure MJ's music won't matter a whit in another two hundred years. That said, I am very sorry for the fact he wasted his tremendous gifts-and they were granted to an extraordinary degree. I do like some of his stuff, though have never seen anything but bits of his vids.

What is really scary is that the 'devoted' fans I saw on TV are also eligible to vote! :(

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Celebrities At The End

The surrealism of celebrity pop culture erupts when a major celebrity dies. The sudden, mysterious death of Michael Jackson caused a near-total eclipse of the real news. The cable-news channels blurred into 24-7 wailing walls for the so-called "King of Pop." Television ratings surged with a big ka-ching.

So much for the "news" business. On Friday, for example, just 24 hours after the death news broke, anchors like NBC's Brian Williams fit the "news" of Congress, the recession and Iran into a neat thimble of snippets so they could devote most of the newscast to continued mourning of the man...

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