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I can't believe George Michael's death is today's lead story
I couldn't believe that a minor royal's miscarriage was lead news story. Pretty harsh on a personal level and absurd given what else is going on in the world.
Is it my imagination or did celebrity news used to come later on the main TV news? Freddie Mercury's death on evening TV news is something really strongly marked in my memory, it seemed to be a massive deal at the time with lots of airtime given over to it, but I think it was at the end of the programme. Might be totally misremembering.
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I can't believe George Michael's death is today's lead story and I agree on the collective outpouring of false grief thing. It is sad though and the timing particularly is, I feel for his friends and family who will be reminded of it every Christmas.
FWIW, there was a significant increase in celeb deaths in the first quarter of 2016, then things went back to normal for the rest of the year. But there is a perception that it has been worse than usual.
I think the #fuck2016 thing is part of something wider though: Trump, Brexit, Syria, Aleppo, Mosul, lots of militant attacks, some with high death tolls etc. etc. Objectively it has been a pretty grim year.