Michael Jackson Is Dead...RIP!
What can you say? He means something to many people. And to many who are untouched by his music or celebrity, they will have to acknowledge his place in the history of pop music.
There will be many stories in the media for days, weeks, months and they will rehash the bad with the good.
He was a genius, vulnerable, troubled and much more. The worry is that it will turn into hysteria.
And it doesn't help when I hear people(radio presenters)who weeks ago ridiculed him, now doing what they feel that they have to and is expected of them and trying to sound sincere and say all the right things...there will, I'm afraid so much hypocrisy.
The only thing is that Michael is out of any suffering that he may've been experiencing.
I tuned into 3AW in Australia(being on dial up, I don't listen online and forget that I have access to media around the world)and I thought they handled the story more balanced than what BBC Radio 5 News was putting out. But that very much depends on the presenter rather than the actual news feeds.
Another person in the music world who has died young in a long line, where do you stop? Another who leaves us wondering what he might've done but the body of work he has done to date will continue to be played.
There will be many stories in the media for days, weeks, months and they will rehash the bad with the good.
He was a genius, vulnerable, troubled and much more. The worry is that it will turn into hysteria.
And it doesn't help when I hear people(radio presenters)who weeks ago ridiculed him, now doing what they feel that they have to and is expected of them and trying to sound sincere and say all the right things...there will, I'm afraid so much hypocrisy.
The only thing is that Michael is out of any suffering that he may've been experiencing.
I tuned into 3AW in Australia(being on dial up, I don't listen online and forget that I have access to media around the world)and I thought they handled the story more balanced than what BBC Radio 5 News was putting out. But that very much depends on the presenter rather than the actual news feeds.
Another person in the music world who has died young in a long line, where do you stop? Another who leaves us wondering what he might've done but the body of work he has done to date will continue to be played.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 12:46 am
2 Comments:
I nearly psoted on this when i woke up...and would have beaten most of the Uk to the story...what I was going to post though was not that he was dead but that 7 of the top 10 most read, 10 of the top 10 most listened to and 3 of the top 5 most shared stories on the BBC online was this story or the various pages of different bits of the story.
A pop icon...mainly the 80s which he ruled wihout a doubt. I remeber watching the elongated Thriller video on it's first showing (so it was about 10pm or something) and I was all alone in a creaky, creepy country mansion! (no joke...and the mansion wasn't mine)
Sadly we see the media hype and hysteria. That has and will always be the case, it even happened in the silent film era when Rudolph Valentino died.
Few will dispute that he has played a part in popular music for the last 50 years but where was the new music? Recent albums were not selling in great numbers and it was the back catelogue that was selling. That music is still there and will be for years to come.
We not seeing MJ that much other than the stories that sometimes appeared in the magazines and newspapers which were mainly negative.
In keeping with your point Span we are practically getting 24/7 wall to wall coverage of a story that for now little detail can be added.
Most if not all other stories have been dropped. Many terms used by those asked to give an opinion are exagerated...The greatest entertainer the world has seen(that's subjective)They will say the all people are mourning...no, many or some...not all. And so on.
And already tonight with all the coverage, a radio programme I wanted to hear was dropped and replaced with little or no warning and similarly the same has happened on television.
I am not saying that I do not expect this story to dominate or that it does not deserve to be given priority but it is being over done. Now the public will watch but are they watching because the media is overdoing it or is it what the population expects and demands?
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