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Originally Posted by Deckard
Not necessarily.
Find myself more in agreement with 349...(etc) than with you when it comes to this one.
Of course the media have been overdoing the coverage, and I can understand how that leads to cynicism. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sad to hear about his death.
And yes, I'm gatecrashing your thread!
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Im gatecrashing too, because why not. I find it hard to act confident about either side of the argument that MJ was a child molester. Definitely a troubled man who had no grasp of what we would consider a normal reality, but what can you expect from someone who had basically been a superstar since around the age of 9? He certainly acted inappropriately where social norms are concerned, admittedly sharing his bed with visiting children, but that doesn't mean he molested them. It's just further evidence of his disconnect with the normal world.
That being said, I'm sick to death of the coverage, particularly on CNN. I like to see a wrap-up of the days events on Anderson Cooper when I get home around 7pm, or sometimes even catch a little Larry King just before that. But since the day Jackson died, they've been having almost round the clock coverage of nothing but where's the will, what's going on with the autopsy, who gets the kids, who inherits his debt, and so on and so forth, over and over and over again. I watch for about 15 or 20 minutes waiting for them to move on to other news stories, but they don't so I turn them off. Meanwhile, the situation in Iran lumbers on, U.S. troops have pulled out of the major cities in Iraq, there's been a coup in Nicaragua, Kim Jong Il has been flaunting his craziness with renewed vigor, etc - but I literally haven't heard about any of that on CNN. It's shameful, and I wish it would stop.