OK, now I've hit the saturation point on Michael Jackson and the coverage. The funeral will be on Tuesday and all of the cable stations are having full coverage, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter will have coverage and a lot of websites will have coverage. This morning a saw a debate between Michael Eric Dyson, Mort Zuckerman and Pat Buchanan discussing Jackson's impact on world society. I never thought I would hear Zuckerman wax on about how he had gone to several Jackson concerts.

While there have been some comments talking about the dark side of Jackson's life, the vast majority of talk, and probably rightly so, have been about the music and the majesty. There have been some who have predicted the memorial tomorrow will be bigger than the one for Princess Diana.

I honestly thought the President's visit to Moscow and the announcement made there was going to be overshadowed by some minor revelation in the Jackson saga. You almost think the announcement in Moscow was made today to clear up room for the round the clock Jackson coverage for tomorrow.

The continual coverage made some sense in the first few days of his death. I even wrote a few days ago that the complaints of too much coverage seem to be much since the coverage had died down. Not any more. The only hope we have now is that after the funeral the coverage will die down, but that will depend on what the crowds and traffic are for tomorrow. While there has been a limit on tickets given away for the event, if the expected 500,000 + people descend on the Staples Center or if websites like Facebook and Twitter show slow down or crash, the coverage will go through the roof.

 

 

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Michael Jackson Deathwatch - July 06, 2009
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