I am so annoyed by the news coverage of Michael Jackson’s death and funeral and associated legal issues. It’s like the OJ trial(s) and obsessions all over again.
There are bigger things in the world to be concerned with! I bet if we took all the brain power that has been wasted thinking about and reporting on and watching and being fascinated with this CRAP we could actually solve some global issues like child slavery, world hunger, maybe a little bit more peace in our time….
Why should we care about the fact that Michael Jackson is dead? Seriously, I’d really like to know why I should give a rip that he died? Yes, he was an innovative musician. Yes, he has a patent on a dance move.
But why should I cry over his death? Why should we devote our news and our lives to this?
It isn’t like this is someone that I was so close to and cared so much about that I don’t know how to deal with the loss….I don’t know why I should deal with this.
Please don’t get me wrong. I absolutely feel for his family and friends and people who have a legitimate right to feel that kind of loss. I just don’t understand why it is being so overdone! People who had actual relationships with him have every right to mourn. Everyone has a right to mourn, but I don’t know why this is being treated as a situation where it is absolutely imperative to report on every imaginable detail as though the entire world was completely devastated.
This is such a huge world with so many issues that need to be addressed. What if instead of using money and resources to travel to the funeral of a musician you’ve never met and didn’t have a personal relationship with (as 11,000 fans are doing) we used that money for food banks – local and international.
What if instead of all the news coverage about Michael Jackson we covered issues that need to be addressed like pressuring lawmakers or finding wanted criminals or reporting on the latest group of kids that made Eagle Scout?
What if we cared about everyone else in the world the same way we apparently care about Michael Jackson as portrayed by the media coverage?
