I have noticed that the media seems to want to talk more about him than before and I think they are trying so badly to paint more of a bad person than they used to do. I don't judge anyone, I love his music and will continue to do so. I know that I am entitled to watch whatever I want and whatnot, but enough already. Everywhere I go to is "Michael was this" and "Michael was that". They keep talking about him in a bad manner because they know that he is not alive to defend himself, he only has brother Jermaine who now wants to have the limelight all to himself it seems and I think if Michael was still alive, Jermaine wouldn't dare show his face on TV. The media is saying that he was murdered by his doctors, but if you ask me, the media is digging him into a deeper and bigger hole.
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Michael Jackson
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I've noticed just the opposite.
Since the "flaming hair" video was released a day or two ago I've heard nonstop commentary by a number of media people all decrying poor, poor Michael and saying his drug habit was the result of burns.
Bullroar!
Plenty of people have lived through equal or much more serious personal injuries and not become drug addicts. He lived his life by choice - and he made some really stupid choices.
Since the "flaming hair" video was released a day or two ago I've heard nonstop commentary by a number of media people all decrying poor, poor Michael and saying his drug habit was the result of burns.
Bullroar!
Plenty of people have lived through equal or much more serious personal injuries and not become drug addicts. He lived his life by choice - and he made some really stupid choices.
landtuna said:
Yeah, like myself, I have had numerous surgeries and some have required for me to take pills and I am not addicted to them, I have always been drug free. If I am required to take medicine for an injury or surgery, then I take them and that's that, I don't touch them again or any other drug. It's just the kind of lifestyle you want to live.
DJ Tony said:
I beg to differ a little bit. I actually notice that CNN has been paying a lot more attention to Michael Jackson, especially after his memorial service. Hey, being third in the ratings and demos behind Fox News and now MSNBC, wouldn't you try to prolong the ratings boost MJ gave you as long as possible?
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THE MICHAEL JACKSON COVERAGE NEEDS TO END, PERIOD. Enough already.
Julius May said:
Its not hard to find people who will agree..even his own fans. But then again there are still people who talk about the death of Elvis as if it happened yesterday. Heck I know of people who are still obsessed with the death of...PATSY CLINE !! And she has been dead now for how long? 46 years !!!!
Someone appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources last Sunday, suggesting that the "only people" who believe Michael Jackson coverage has been excessive on CNN and other channels are whites, while blacks believe he warrants this coverage. This was coming from a black person, who was defending the amount of MJ coverage up against journalists arguing it was excessive to have wall-to-wall coverage of the memorial the entire day.
I'm white, and I thought the coverage of Anna Nicole Smith was excessive! It's not about the colour, it's the fact he was a human like everyone else, who happened to have a talent that people were willing to pay money for.
I'm white, and I thought the coverage of Anna Nicole Smith was excessive! It's not about the colour, it's the fact he was a human like everyone else, who happened to have a talent that people were willing to pay money for.
Blacks who like to whine about race will see it as Michael being picked on unfairly. White bigots will whine about Michael being glorified. For what it's worth I am white and I am proud I voted for Obama. Race had nothing to do with my vote. I wasn't really corncerned about being " progressive". I am not wired that way I simply thought he was the bertter choice. In another 3 years I may regret my decscion. I may not. Who knows? I try to be colorblind as best I can and somtimes I fail at that. Replying to this post might be an example. Nobody's perfect. I just wish people on both sides in this country would move past all this silliness about race. I wasn't a big fan of MJ but I will say "'Thriller was a helluva an album". After that he did get wierd but lots of people in the music business have. CNN is exploiting it just like they did with Anna Nicole Slut er I mean Anna Nicole Smith. 
Larry King will probably feature this well into 2010. : These are my opinions and nothing more; nothing less.
Can't we all just get along
DFWsportsfan
Larry King will probably feature this well into 2010. : These are my opinions and nothing more; nothing less.Can't we all just get along
DFWsportsfan
Shows like Inside Edition will have Michael Jackson stories for the foreseeable future! : After all, they did at least a week's worth of shows on Heath Ledger!
And I don't have cable, but I'm guessing that it will take a while for Nancy Grace to move on, too! :
After all, they did at least a week's worth of shows on Heath Ledger! And I don't have cable, but I'm guessing that it will take a while for Nancy Grace to move on, too! :
firepoint525 said:And I don't have cable, but I'm guessing that it will take a while for Nancy Grace to move on, too! :
Chances are she will be doing Jackson stuff a year from now.
The other day I noticed that CNN had Mike Walker on from the National Enquier. It was afterall Mike Walker who made the claim on his own syndicated radio show some 15 years ago that whenever America's economy goes into a recession, then people start to eat up celebrity news. I can see his point, people scared to death about layoffs and more layoffs and those who do have a job are so scared of getting fired they are too stressed out to even buy a cup of coffee so where is their escape? The celebrities !!!!
Of course you do have those who care more about Michael Jackson's kids ( or any other celebrity kids ) than their own. Like what I had brought up on another thread some months back about that grandmother who spent quite a bit of money buying gifts for MADONNA's kids...but didn't buy anything for her own grandkids. Farrah Fawcett..chances are there are those who were more concerned about what she is going through than say if someone in their own family was going through the same thing as Farrah did.In other words, to those people Farrah's cancer was "more important" than say "Aunt Susan's" cancer. Sounds crazy..and it is but there are some people out there who treat the stars as if they really are a part of thier family.
But this stuff isn't new. Back in March 1982, a good friend of mine, his 23 year old brother was killed in a car crash. I went to that funeral. YET it seemed people at the funeral were more shocked and saddened at the recent JOHN BELUSHI death than that of the 23 year old who was lying right there in the coffin.
TV's Tabloid News, known today as CNN Headline News, or HL, will milk the Michael Jackson story for years to come. It's either that or the pending divorce of two people I never heard of before.
This coverage is yet another example of how pure journalism has been replaced by entertainment reporting.
A true journalist would wait for the autopsy reports to come back, while entertainment reporters actually bother to listen to what LaToya and Joe Jackson have to say.
Right LaToya, your brother was murdered. And okay Joe take Michael's children and put them on tour in order to put more money in your pocket.
Those two should be ignored period.
Not to sound heartless but Michael Jackson is dead; period. So unless it is proven that he was the victim of foul play, or did depend on prescription drugs, like Elvis, which lead to his early demise, there isn't anything new to report.
This coverage is yet another example of how pure journalism has been replaced by entertainment reporting.
A true journalist would wait for the autopsy reports to come back, while entertainment reporters actually bother to listen to what LaToya and Joe Jackson have to say.
Right LaToya, your brother was murdered. And okay Joe take Michael's children and put them on tour in order to put more money in your pocket.
Those two should be ignored period.
Not to sound heartless but Michael Jackson is dead; period. So unless it is proven that he was the victim of foul play, or did depend on prescription drugs, like Elvis, which lead to his early demise, there isn't anything new to report.
Michael's hair catching on fire (probably due to Jheri Curl?) was almost certainly his "jump the shark" moment. After that, he repeatedly made the news for increasingly weirder and weirder behavior! Then when he was accused of child molestation, the charges were believable, regardless of whether or not the accusers' individual accusations had any credibility.
I can't help but notice that his "music" became significantly "angrier" after that. Everything he wrote/recorded after that could fall into one of two categories: "angry" songs: "Leave Me Alone," "They Don't Care About Us;" or "politically correct" songs: "Man in the Mirror," "Heal the World," etc. (And "Heal the World" was a "We Are the World" ripoff!) Even his videos became angrier! Remember him smashing the car windows in the "Black or White" video?
Ironically enough, I dropped out of Michael's fan base after the overhyped "Thriller" video, which we all know was nothing more than a ploy to keep the Thriller album at #1 through the end of the year! : (I say "ironically" because the hair fire incident coincided with the overhype of the "Thriller" video, which made me jump off the Michael Jackson bandwagon.)
I can't help but notice that his "music" became significantly "angrier" after that. Everything he wrote/recorded after that could fall into one of two categories: "angry" songs: "Leave Me Alone," "They Don't Care About Us;" or "politically correct" songs: "Man in the Mirror," "Heal the World," etc. (And "Heal the World" was a "We Are the World" ripoff!) Even his videos became angrier! Remember him smashing the car windows in the "Black or White" video?
Ironically enough, I dropped out of Michael's fan base after the overhyped "Thriller" video, which we all know was nothing more than a ploy to keep the Thriller album at #1 through the end of the year! :
(I say "ironically" because the hair fire incident coincided with the overhype of the "Thriller" video, which made me jump off the Michael Jackson bandwagon.)Huh? I thought it had? I guess with all the talk about Uncle Walter, who DESERVES the coverage.Julius May said:
But her music was good.mleach said:
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