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   oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

   Priorities are all important in the world news cycle. Sleaze trumps all….Child molester gets just deserts. So what??

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   cdward said, 4 months ago

   That’s what happens when you let businessmen run the news.

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   Buzzy-One said, 4 months ago

   Why all the commentary. Businessmen just supply what the public demands. ie NO DEMAND; no supply.

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   johnking said, 4 months ago

   No, this is what happens when entertainers posing as journalists run the news.

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   Gladius said, 4 months ago

   As sad as it mat seem to be to us, Michael Jackson is more important than anything else to a large number of people. Anybody look at the Google numbers after the death was reported? I read that the number of requests actually activated Googles virus threat software.

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   Dale Hopson said, 4 months ago

   I agree that 24/7 coverage of Michael Jackson’s death is way overboard, but the fact is he was very popular as well as an important part in a lot of people’s lives… and for all his fame he had a very sad life! Maybe some will learn from that…

   Also it seems every radio station in each place I pass in NYC is playing Michael Jackson’s music this weekend.

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   cdward said, 4 months ago

   We get the entertainers posing as reporters and presenting pablum because it’s easy on viewers who will mindlessly sit and stare at it. Real news feels too much like work, so while news agencies would go after the in-depth news, their business school bosses keep cutting resources and reporters – thus, you get Jon and Kate and Michael Jackson 24/7.

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   Tigger said, 4 months ago

   Fox News has their Priorities totally messed up. They Bumped regularly scheduled Programming and devoted the entire night to all things Michal Jackson. I would have thought since Fox is Republican Controlled Network, they would have spent the entire week talking about Ms. Farah Fawcett losing her battle to Cancer, No they chose to spend the entire night talking about an alleged Pedophile.

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   Gladius said, 4 months ago

   It isn’t just Fox. I switched on CNN this morning and it pretty much all Michael. Checking Fox, at that moment, they were talking business news. Although, I admit they were planning a segment on Jacksons money… coming up next (breathless excitement)
   Since their business coverage didn’t exactly do anything for me I hit the most useful network, OFF.

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    danielsangeo said, 4 months ago

    “Why all the commentary. Businessmen just supply what the public demands. ie NO DEMAND; no supply.”

    The news should not be a “business”.

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    gbrucewilson said, 4 months ago

    I agree with daniel. “News” should be controled by the government. That way we know we would be getting the truth (of the party in power). NOT!

    In the case of the NY Times, “news” is not a business. They are so far left they are going bankrupt. And they don’t care as long as they get their leftwing message out.

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    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    Tigger – so did all the other networks; Fox no worse than others with overboard Jackson coverage.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    truth in contemporary history be known, the culture of michael jackson was an international phenomenon. world news would certainly entertain a global heirarchy. it doesn’t surprise me at all (nor does it perturb me) that the announcement of his tragic death pre-empted the prevailing news for a minute.

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    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    Pre-empted for a minute? It is still going on!

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    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    “minute” in ebonics vernacular