In case you’re missing it back in North America, BBC is ALL OVER the story about Michael Jackson’s reported death, with current non-stop coverage and many uses of “we haven’t confirmed this but it’s been on the TMZ website.”
BBC on top of the “Michael Jackson is dead” story
June 25th, 2009 · 14 Comments
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1 Todd Sieling // Jun 25, 2009 at 2:31 pm
LA Times is now confirming, so it looks for real. What a sad and troubled life he seemed to end up in.
2 Brenda B. // Jun 25, 2009 at 3:01 pm
How many people will actually be saddened that the world has one less pedophile in its midst? Perhaps the parents who alowed their children to spend “overnights” in his bed…
3 Britta Stender, DK // Jun 25, 2009 at 10:13 pm
OOOH Brenda, perhaps you should show a little respect and rethink your words…
(I think many people still doubt if he was guilty or not!)
I deffinitly think you should keep this to yourself on his day of death! And give the man and the grieving people some space!
4 Blaffergassted // Jun 26, 2009 at 12:50 pm
The BBC coverage of this story was thorough, well researched and IMMEDIATE.
CNN, CBCNewsworld, and CTVNewsnet were all scrambling to go through their archives to dig up stuff, and it showed.
Kudos to BBC for beating the North American news stations to their own story.
And to Fran, for noticing it.
5 Frances Bula // Jun 26, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Yes, it was interesting for us to see how quickly BBC was on top of the story. That’s why I bothered posting, because I could see from checking Vancouver/Canadian websites that no one was really going with the story as early.
You’re right, they did have a reporter on the ground who said exactly which websites the rumours were coming from and why they were likely to be reliable and so on. It was quite impressive. Yay for our dying industry.
6 Dee // Jun 26, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I knew you’d have the first scoop of MJ on the block – you even wen to Europe to do it.
Sigh, an icon from my generation gone. What a sad life he must have had; only now I realize how talented he was. My grade six heart still thinks he’s alive. He was my first concert at BC Place and he was only 25?!
I’ll continue to enjoy your articles without taking you for granted Frances!
7 gmgw // Jun 26, 2009 at 8:15 pm
The BBC has for many years displayed an inordinate amount of interest in Michael Jackson; just a couple of months ago the CBC screened a (relatively) recent and well-done Beeb doc on what had become of MJ post-trial. The BBC docs on Jacko have for the most part had the virtue of being more “journalistic”, i.e. less gushy, sensationalistic and celebrity-obsessed, than their American counterparts. Which, if you know anything about what passes for British journalism these days, is something of a surprise.
Like a lot of other people, I have had a passively voyeuristic interest in watching the ongoing train wreck that has been Jackson’s life in the past two decades, but I deeply regret (have regretted for years, in fact) the loss of the phenomenally talented performer he was in his prime.
gmgw
8 Urbanismo // Jun 27, 2009 at 9:00 am
Before eulogising the Beeb . . .
Remember . . it reported the collapse of Building 7 twenty minutes before it actually did collapse . . .
As for MJ . . . its called reap what you sow . . Kama
9 gmgw // Jun 27, 2009 at 11:55 pm
You know, Urbanismo, if you’re going to drag “Kama” (sic) into the discussion, allow me to point out that, AFAIK, Michael Jackson was never accused of *killing* anyone– so forgive me if I find your “reap what you sow” argument to be just a bit over the top.
gmgw
10 A. G. Tsakumis // Jun 28, 2009 at 1:18 am
Well let me add that I, too, will not miss Jacko the Wacko.
As Brenda and Urbanismo have quite astutely put it: Who will miss pedophile? Not me.
People who still see Jackson as innocent are either blind to fact or living in a romantic bubble of yesteryear.
Jackson bought the silence of at least two sets of (idiotic) parents and admitted that he shares his bed with young boys.
He was then 46 years old.
I couldn’t careless about the psychobabble regarding his upbringing. Many people grow up in bizarre environments, even ones where they too might have been molested, but to use your millions to hide behind some legal veil to do unto others what might have been done to you is beyond words.
Good riddance. The world is one less sick fiddler.
Jackson was a danger to others and his death will only serve to provide some comfort to any American parent that might be worried that, for whatever circumstance, their son would have one less sicko to worry about…
Only in America can a cute black boy grow up to look like a crazed white woman.
11 Urbanismo // Jun 28, 2009 at 10:24 am
gmgw mira . . .
Yes of course, Karma Thanqu.
Excuse me, I am unaware MJ killed anyone: other than himself . . .
I don’t understand your point.
MJ lived a very shallow narcissistic existence (I hesitate to describe his as a “life”).
Ultimately the artist must function and contribute . . . grow and teach . . . for her/himself at least . . . as does Saint Germain and Dylan etc . . . as did John Lennon.
Having said that I recognized Billy Holliday’s contribution as exceptional but she wasn’t flagrant . . .
MJ lived 46 years and could not come to terms with himself: his grotesque make over says it all: one has to conclude his ambivalent self image eventually destroyed him.
Yes he is to be pitied. Yet an artist who attains his notoriety and privilege must accept responsibility: to be a positive influence on the young, the naive and the gullible.
If, indeed, he is the role model you surmise then I am concerned for my two recent great grand children.
It’s still called Karma . . .
I make no apologies for the pontificate . . .
Sin enbargo . . . our own Be Good Tanyas,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkFySJmEJY
who cannot “tell a bouncer from a customer” make a salient point about the state of later night Robson street.
MJ’s “Smooth Criminal” sung with such unintelligible hysteria . . . just doesn’t work!
And no Michael I wont be at the SFU View corridor thing because, through long experience I have come to distrust VPD . . . but thanqxz for the invite . . .
12 Bboy Pen // Jul 1, 2009 at 7:33 pm
In case you retards haven’t heard, he was found innocent of all the “pedophile” charges against him. So just shut it with your smart ass comments and let the man rest in peace.
13 Urbanismo // Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 am
Yup, Bboy:
This retard agrees . . . shut the **** up about MJ!
But hey tell that to Anderson Copper and Larry King . . .
14 A. G. Tsakumis // Jul 5, 2009 at 8:39 am
OJ Simpson was found innocent as well…
The evidence supporting the claims of JAckson as molester, were significantly more compelling than Simpson as murderer.
Both were guilty…
Jackson was a sicko. Good riddance.
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