07.07.2009 6:46 am
Poll: Too much Michael Jackson coverage?
Michael Jackson’s memorial tribute takes place today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and it’ll be hard to miss, airing live on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, BET, and other outlets.
A New York congressman has had it up to here with it all, calling Jackson a lowlife and wondering what it says about a country devoting this much media attention to him.
But others see it as a fitting farewell to the world’s biggest superstar.



Kevin C. Johnson has covered the St. Louis' music and nightlife scene for the past decade.
It has been a little too much. I almost feel some of the media is being very disrespectful. I just wish they would let the man rest in peace and let his family grieve. Nobody is perfect and he has done some rather strange things but when it’s said and done he was somebody’s brother, child, and friend.
Enough already! He’s dead! Let him go.
I think it is fitting for the worlds biggest pop star. Some people have nothing better to do than just hate on him, yet what folks do not realize is everyone has floss. People went crazy when Elvis died and he was not a saint! MJ has done a lot for the world of music and this is only fair.
everyone has floss?
This is a dumb poll…of COURSE there’s way to much media coverage.
Michael Jackson was many things. Among them a very talented singer, and incredible dancer, a talented songwriter, a troubled soul and a pedophile. Unfortunately the pedophile takes the most prominent role in how I have felt and will continue to feel about MJ. Great talent, but not to the level that this country is going to pay homage to him. This tells me several things: first, that the media is afraid to say know to all things racial lest they look bigoted; second, that the suggestion if he were white would he get as much attention? is a consideration (note Elvis’ death); third, it is amazing and sad how many cretins there are out there trying to hitch hike on MJ’s death (can you say Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson?); and last, I did not know a single black person who could have cared less about MJ when he was alive (and I worked with 12 black people for a long time), they thought he was sick, strange, talented, but not black anymore. The biigest fan base I noticed for MJ in the US were white girls between the ages of 10 and 20. But now MJ is “ours” to quote Jamie Fox who previously loved making fun of MJ. It is over the top, rife with hypocrisy, a model of brutal ambition for attention, and a perfect example of the circling of the vultures. God bless MJ, he’s going to need it.
show me one other child molester in history that has been glorified like this guy….all you child toucher worshippers need to really take a step back and question what you are doing, and why
I WANT MORE!!! More clips, more data on his life, more trivial info, more coverage on his memorial, more rare footage….I want all other programming to be suspended for the day!
To those who think MJ is getting too much press coverage, blame it on technology. Elvis would have received the same attention (if not more) if same technology was present when he passed. Remember (for those of you who were around in the ’70’s)…there was no cable TV, internet, cell phones, Twitter, Facebook, etc, back in 1977.
if elvis had been giving 9-10 year old boys “jesus juice” in order to take advantage of them, he would be getting press, but not the kind jackson is getting…….