Saturation

[matt]

FWIW - BBC Radio 6 Music - on all day and not a single MJ track so far...

 

[kityuser]

just like the bloody jade goode fiasco

who cares! we build these people up, take fun in knocking them down, then all pretend that everybody wasn't at their throat 5 mins ago when they die.

talented, yes
strange, yes
either very naive or a kiddie fiddler, yes

Steve

 

[big soft moose]

I agree, I'm sorry for his families sake but beyond that people die everyday and it is distasteful in the extreme that the same media circus who want to deityfy michael jackson are happy to ignore (or at least not give massive attention to others who are more worthy of rememberance and praise. (solidiers , police, firemen, etc etc etc )

 

[Ironballs]

It's a fair point BSM, but we can't celebrate the life of every good person who passes, we'd all be doing it all the time. So for the majority the people whose lives you have touched and made better will be the ones who mourn your passing.

It just wouldn't work would it, as great as they may have been you wouldn't buy a paper or watch a programme about the greatest teacher in Dundee who enriched the lives of thousands of children who passed through his classes. Not unless there was a special interest.

Famous people may or may not have done anything this great, but they do touch the lives of many in some way so they are of interest and they sell papers/TV programmes. Where you draw your own personal line and take an interest or not is up to you. Jade Goody, couldn't care less, MJ interesting and I like some of his music but I'm not too fussed, Steve Irwin the crocodile man, thought that was sad and an unnecessary loss though he was taking the risk, when Steve Clark from Def Leppard snuffed it I was genuinely shocked and saddened

 

[devonwoody]

MJ.
Perhaps the florists want you to know, surely there is somewhere I can place my flowers.

:wink:

 

[big soft moose]

It just wouldn't work would it, as great as they may have been you wouldn't buy a paper or watch a programme about the greatest teacher in Dundee who enriched the lives of thousands of children who passed through his classes. Not unless there was a special interest.

frankly i wouldnt buy a paper to read about MJ either. It just annoys me that the death of a rich narcisistic singer who may or may not have been a kiddie fidler to boot and who probably caused his own demise by taking excessive ammounts of prescription drugs is front page, we interupt this programe, scheduling change news,

While the death of a british soilder in iraq or afghanistan barely rates a mention on the broadcast services, and is relegated to page 8 or 9 below the fold in the print media.