Another reason MSM’s Jacko-mania reeks
Need another reason to be disgusted with the media’s never-ending Michael Jackson fixation?
Stephen Gordon notes:
Michelle Malkin and I had made suggestions that ABC News allow John Stossel to participate in their White House special with President Obama regarding the proposed government takeover of the health care industry. While ABC didn’t heed our sage advice, they did schedule Stossel on the next 20/20 to cover the health care debate.
When Stossel’s health care piece was bumped because some famous singer and alleged child molester died, he wasn’t overly critical of ABC, though.
“Yes, I am sick of the coverage of Michael Jackson,” wrote Stossel. “I hate it that ABC didn’t run my piece. Free markets sometimes encourage pandering to the masses. I still say, bless the market. The good outweighs the bad.”
ABC doesn’t know how blessed it is to have John Stossel.
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What a wild coincidence that they chose Stossel’s piece to bump. I mean, really, the odds on that must be staggering.
Here in the Metroplex….the Channel 11 (CBS affilate) news had a story on a town south of Dallas (Ennis)…where last night some folks gathered in parking lot for a Michael Jackson memorial. I presume this will be replicated all over the country.
This will be as overdone as the memorials and coverage of Princess Di, was.
Meanwhile a family of four from D-FW was killed in a horrible chain reaction wreck in the state of Oklahoma. (There were 10 fatalities).
But that doesn’t matter much….because they weren’t famous.
/sarc off
Maybe they should’ve run a story on the destination of the millions of dollars of settlement monies the Jackson estate paid to accusers–how that money was used, spent, and why–especially since he was merely an alleged molester.
Come on, don’t blame Jackson dying for this like he did it on purpose. I’m tired of defending Jackson, but I’m sick of the over-the-top criticizm of a singer.
Anyway, lets talk about the Republicans interested in a public plan for health care as well. I could do as good a health care documentary as anyone and spell out all the different issues.
It is clear to me that people don’t understand health care, and that is precisely why the government will get away with destroying it.
Here’s a ‘health care’ piece concerning the absurdity of a public plan.
They want to pay for it by taxing health benefits. That will then cause businesses to drop their health coverage for the ‘public option’. So the revenue they expect from taxing the benefits won’t be there because nobody will have benefits to tax.
Couple that with the billions of dollars in tax revenue that the health insurance companies pay to the government and this entire idea of a ‘public option’ shoots itself in the foot.
I can go on and on and on ad nauseum about health care in America. But it is boring as CRAP! If the president in the White House talking about health care is a ratings bomb, why do you think Stossel would be a blockbuster?
Health Care is boring. Nobody understands it (especially politicians in DC). This is why they will do ’something’ and in the process destroy all that is good about the system already.
Everything that I have heard from the MSM about health care has been completely off base. Again, I can go on and on and on, but IT’S BORING!
Fox reported yesterday that the black community is whinning again. Apparently the media isn’t covering MJ’s life and death fairly…sheesh!
I would say that I’d like FOX News to steal him away, but I think he should stay and fight on the MSM. At least one voice in the wilderness.
As usual, you miss the point. It is not criticism of Jackson so much…it is criticism of the over-the-top news coverage when so many more important things are going on. Get a grip.
Well, now that you put it that way…
*sarc*
ooopsss sorry “whining.” I never spell that word right.
The point is that even if it was the most spectacular health care program in the history of the universe with amazing analysis and revelations galore. . . NOBODY WILL WATCH.
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
What good is a good documentary if nobody wants to watch it. Have Stossel put it on youtube and distribute it through conservative blogs and you’ll get more viewers than putting it on in place of any Michael Jackson piece.
I think all of you are missing the point that it doesn’t matter how important it is if nobody listens. . . and they won’t.
This Jacko-mania is designed to take our minds off of what those traitors in Washington DC are doing to destroy our country. By the way if anybody can tell be what’s lower then a child molester, I would like to know. In my opinion Jacko was lower then whale doo doo.
Jackson was not a ‘child molester’. Where is your evidence? That he was proven ‘not guilty’ in a court of law? Proven ‘not guilty’ means that you did what you were accused of?
If that’s the case, I accuse you, savage24 of child molestation. According to you, that makes you lower than whale doo doo.
Obama was on ABC, nobody watched. I kind of agree with Thacker. All this talk about what the MSM is covering. Who cares! Apparently no one, because no one watches. I think what he is saying is the MSM is irrelevant.
Yeah, that would be called “preaching to the choir”. The ones who need the truth don’t bother to go to conservative blogs either. At least, if it is on the MSM, they might accidentally watch it, thinking it is a reality show or something.
Perhaps Jackson was a great entertainer. I have no abilities to judge good/bad, lots/little talent. As for his life & death; don’t now & never gave a crap. Same for any celebrity. I’m just old enough to remember when athletes, entertainers, et al, did what they did, were humble & kept their yap shut. They were grateful they got to play childhood games or make movies, & get paid for it. They were glad not to be working a shift at some factory or farm for 40 years, like so many others had to do, who weren’t talented, or just plain lucky. There are millions of real heros in this country who get up every day & go to work for a better life & a better America. Never a kind word for them. As for the celebs, just make a movie or play your game, & then shut up.
I agree that “celebrities” have bought into their own hype. They are not relevant. Their movies are sometimes watchable, sometimes not. And their comments are usually moronic. The ego-thing just drips off them and it is disgusting to watch.
that’s close to it Miss cheryl. It’s not that it isn’t important, it’s that America today is more interested in Jackson than health care.
The way our system was set up, we weren’t really supposed to have opinions on all the issues of the day. We elect people to have opinions for us. Unfortunately what they are doing in DC now is more of a power grab, and not a part of what they were meant to do.
It is tragic and alarming. The best thing that congress can do is do nothing. But they don’t want to do nothing. So anything you hear in the MSM is going to be a spin from someone. They won’t tell you what is happening, they will tell you what they want you to know and think.
Then they produce a document and vote on it before you even know what is in it. . . so all the documentaries in the world won’t stop it. Once it is done, it is over.
Once the private insurance companies are gone, that tax revenue to the government (from evil profits) will be gone. Insurance executives won’t care because they have what is known as ‘reserves’ that is basically CASH MONEY. If they don’t have a company anymore, they still have the cash and distribute it among the board.
Public option or not, health insurance companies or not, the people in the health care industry are going to be fine. . . the American people are going to be the ones who suffer.
But you’ll never hear anyone tell you that if congress does this, you will suffer. That’s all you need to know. How did cap-and-trade pass when everyone acknowledges that it is just a tax on everyone? Not enough documentaries?
With all the hoopla regarding MJ’s death, I recall the 1987 baseball season, when the L.A. Dodgers, my home team, were really pathetic with their fielding (Pedro Guerrero at 3rd, Steve Sax at 2nd). Anyway, there was a joke that was going around:
Q – What do the L.A. Dodgers and Michael Jackson have in common?
A – They both wear one glove for no apparent reason.
Can at least one place I like to be (here) STOP talking about Michael Jackson…he’s dead…he is NOT important to anything that’s happening in America…neither his life nor death affect me or my family, nor any of my friends…he is not a source of pride for anyone (except some members of the black victimhood community)….
I’m sick of it! Please, STOP. PLEASE!
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Hi THACKERAGENCY #13. Jacko was not found guilty of child molestation in a court of law. As I remember a number of the families of the young children involved in the case were paid millions of dollars to shut them up and to change their testamony.
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What normal family would permit their children to sleep over at a rich (really) stranger’s bizarre ranch?
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How many normal adult men sleep in the same bed with unrelated young children? Does this seem normal to you?
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Michael Jackson had tremendous talent. But like Elvis Presley and other rich and famous persons he did not have a normal stable upbringing–strong Christian or other traditional values. Something really bad happens to a lot of these people–drugs, booze, pedophilia, homosexuality, etc. And it happens to those around them.
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May he rest in peace. His time of trial in this world is over–and he leaves a very mixed legacy.
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John Bibb
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Jackson’s life became a tragedy in its Riches-to-Rags paradigm; his death is also a tragedy, for different reasons.
I feel bad for the guy in that after he reached the top in the 1980s, his life slowly unraveled before the whole world until the “King of Pop” crossed the finish line as a self-mutilated weirdo and a perv.
What’s tragic about his death is that the wall-to-wall media coverage ultimately reaches the point where feelings of sadness give way to resentment: he’s dead, and he’s not coming back — no matter how long and how breathlessly reporters and news readers rend their garments and gnash their teeth, day after day after day.
The media has to let him go, so that they’ll finally be able to let us go, too.
For those of you who are tiring of hearing about MJ – you are all RAAAAAACCISSSTTT!!!
I’m one of those masses. I say, Rest In Peace, Michael. I truly hope you’re in Heaven, now.
!!NOW LET’S MOVE ONE!!
Michael Jackson may have only been and alleged child molester but he was a confirmed weirdo. Just look at his public persona. What I find sad is not his death but the over-the-top grief, mourning and eulogies of so many people.
Bad idea. Wouldn’t want to confuse their with “reality show” reality with “real” reality as consequences for this nation could be very unpredictable. They might even get off their sofa’s and start voting and make things even worse. Better to keep them in their media induced fog.
we place too much adulation on entertainers, sports figures, and other celebs that we should as a society. We should be covering the lives of our soliders, sailors, and airman who die daily protecting us! There have been at least 6 celebs die in the last 3 weeks…none has had the attention of MJ…Ed McMahon a military pilot in two wars was not covered near as much. There are many others in our society who work hard and succeed but never get the respect or attention they should.
People like Bob Schieffer want to pretend that media bias is solely in the eye of the beholder, and that it isn’t detectable or worth acknowledging. Most likely you, as a Malkin reader, realize that is horsehockey. If you don’t, I have a challenge.
There are many reporters or on-air commentators that can easily be pegged as either liberal or left-leaning due to their background, reportage or personal statements (e.g. Dan Rather tried to sabotage the 2004 Presidential election with a forged document; George Stephanopoulos used to be Bill Clinton’s Press Secretary; Meredith Vieira admitted attending an anti-Iraq war rally with her children; Barbara Walters — nuf said, etc.). Please identify the on-air personalities on ABC, CBS, and NBC that can be credibly referred to as “conservative,” and say exactly why you’ve reached that conclusion.
I can think of only three, and they’re all on ABC: John Stossel (who is a die hard libertarian, not a doctrinaire Republican), George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative pundit, and Jan Crawford Greenburg, who covers the Supreme Court for ABC News and — unlike longtime New York Times SCOTUS beat reporter Linda Greenhouse — plays it straight down the middle.
Are they sure the free market wants more MJ coverage? Does anyone know how they make these determinations?
Farrah Fawcett arrived in Heaven. She was immediately met by St. Peter.
“Welcome to Heaven!” said St. Peter. “Here you can have anything you want. What do you want most of all?”
Farrah thought a moment and said, “Oh, I just want all the children on Earth to be safe!”
And poof! Suddenly Michael Jackson died.
Evilned-That is so wrong on so many levels!
I like it! hehehe!
GSP
For those of you who are tiring of hearing about MJ – you are all
RAAAAAACCISSSTTT!!!Rock & Roll fans.Elvis is the king.
How about the retired Major General who died (along with his wife) in the Metro accident. They were returning from volunteer work at Walter Reed.
Michael Jackson will not be buried or cremated. Since he was 2/3 plastic, they are going to melt him down and make Legos out of him so that little boys can still play with him…
Some rapper clown is on the radio claiming WE are smearing-and of course are then racist- Jack-O-”When Elvis died there wasn’t all this talk of drugs”. So now I wonder: Is is possible a human being can be that stupid or is he just lying? If Jackson was or was not a child molester I do not care and I do not care how he died-I am just sick of hearing it.
OK, that I liked hearing
I lied.
Give me an R
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STOP–I am being corrupted!
Although I will forward that to my entire contact list.
Thacker wrote:
Holy intellectual dishonesty, Batman!
You can’t say Jackson “was not a child molester” any more than someone could say “O.J. Simpson didn’t kill his wife and Ron Goldman” simply because a jury found him “not guilty.”
Do you think O.J. was on his search for “the real killers” when he wrote that book If I Did It?
You have no right to throw around an specious accusation of savage24. To your knowledge, savage24 didn’t pay $22 million to a boy who accused him of molestation (after having first insisted he was totally innocent of the charges) or admit on national television that sleeps in the same bed with unrelated boys. Michael Jackson, on the other hand, did both, and invited suspicion upon himself.
Grow up.
FOX NEWS bumped the Cap and Trade legislation vote to run Wacko Jacko all day long. No other MSM would ever dare run the C & T scam news, so they are excused. THIS WEBSITE IS THE ONLY PLACE I GET MY “REAL” NEWS.
AmericaFirst you are right about the msm–the fairness doctrine and its bastard offspring will censor/shutdown this site and talk radio before the 2010 elections–start looking at shortwave.
Resistance in mandatory.
me too! That was funny!
ArizonaNeanderthal wrote:
That likely was Sean “Diddy” Combs, who doesn’t know jack. He was seven years old when Elvis died. If you are unfamiliar with Combs’ “music,” you may remember his comment upon John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin: “I don’t even know if there’s any black people in Alaska!”
I’d like MM to outright ask several Fox news producers how do they know/guess that America’s really THAT (sickly) fixated on M.J. to swamp the airwaves about this pedophile King so! (Unless MM dips in some blond hair dye, she won’t be endangering any possible anchor chair on Fox anyway). This morbid coverage is more than merely excessive; it’s perversely excessive. It tells the world A LOT about where our heads aren’t. I’m saying to myself (through kids eyes) who ELSE in our society is worth this much coverage? A mere president? A top scientist? A war hero?? Jeeze, I get so TIRED of folks saying that “but he was such a cute kid who made me feel so warm and fuzzy back in high school!!!” Hey, I heard John Wayne Gazey and Joe Mengele were awfully winsome tykes in community playhouses. Why are we letting their adult lives corrupt their reputations?
I wonder what poor John Walsh has to say about this pedophilic media rapture.
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
James Greenidge wrote:
Here’s how they know. From Drudge Report:
Fox News not only took the majority of the top ten slots, it took them ALL. FNC dominates more than it ever has at this point. That’s NOT a bad thing, because as fluffy as this Jacko coverage is, it’s sandwiched in-between the only serious questioning Obama is getting in any media save talk radio.
Shows what you know. Last time I checked, Julie Banderas was not blonde. And Michelle was the default fill-in host for Bill O’Reilly — she was, in a sort, Joan Rivers to O’Reilly’s Carson. She dumped The O’Reilly Factor in protest of Bill’s less-than-forceful defense of her after Geraldo implied she was a bigot and said he’d like to spit on her.
‘there was no talk of drugs when Elvis died’??!
Is that crapola fer reals? That’s all they talked about! Drugs was the big thing, dude! It was the 70s!
It would have been better to say ‘there was no internet when Elvis died’. At least you’d be correct.
On June 30th, 2009 at 2:23 pm, L.N. Smithee said:
You can’t tell from that clip!!!! (Oh wait, sorry, watched it for the third time and her head is actually in that shot…)
This Stossel guy is a complete joke – Republican hack, whit an outdated worldview, he needs to go to Fox.
I noticed “the spitter” didn’t make the top ten, how can that be…the racist bastard he is.
I don’t watch fox any longer, Cavuto is good, wrong time for me. Got tired of OhReally a few weeks back, he’s always pandering to the illegal president…and I lost a lot of respect for him when he wouldn’t stand up for Michelle. I liked John Gibson, they bounced him I guess, he does have a radio program now.