As Vita pointed out, news coverage has been less than positive for a while, especially for Sarah Palin.
BUT, at least that's REAL NEWS.
For more than a week, all CNN and pretty much every single other TV station usually devoted to showing "news" has been covering is the death of Michael Jackson. It's come to today, simulcasting his memorial for hours on almost every channel all over the world. It was predicted days before the actual broadcast that over a BILLION people would watch it.
Well, I watched a little of it, out of boredom and partially curiosity. It was hyped as being SPECTACULAR, tons of famous people in attendance. Yea, there was that...
but WHAT? What else? Was the world going to implode? What made it so abso-freaking-lutely splendiforously SPECTACULAR? Besides multiple performances from the above mentioned famous people, it was what is to be expected at a funeral. People cried. People talked and remembered what this person's life WAS. Simple.
It was nice. It was tasteful. It wasn't some kind of cheesy tribute concert.
But, really, everything up until that point was really too much. He is DEAD. Let him rest in peace. Just shut up now.
On a lighter note, I now try to embed a video into this blog, with almost certainly disatrous results... ok, so it's not going to be directly within this blog, click the link please: (It's not a link dangit! Oh well, let's be primitive and copy & paste the URL...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2EPKKVrqI&feature=fvst
Alrighty, hope that works. It's true. It's sad that real news is being pushed aside for the sake of ratings. Does real news not interest people anymore? Maybe that's the problem. No one is taking an interest in what's going on in the world, because it isn't impacting them. And when it DOES, they'll freak out. Even though it's been going on for months or years or centuries or whatever.
Hmmmm... no questions. Why do I feel I should say something more?
At the very end of the memorial, the saddest part was hearing his daughter talk about him. He was her FATHER, not some mythical superstar. It was sad and bittersweet, but that's the way he should be remembered.
1 comment:
Oh, wow, I'm so glad you commented on this. I feel exactly the same way. It's really sad that he died, and I understand it getting some coverage, but he does NOT deserve that much news - except maybe on E! or something. There was just that constant stream of Michael Jackson videos on every news channel, and I couldn't help but think - there isn't ANYTHING else you should be talking about right now? Really? NOTHING?
Sorry about the lack of questions, ack! I'll answer/ask 'em on Friday.
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