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Jackson kicking the bucket does a good job of highlighting just how tabloid the BBC really are.
24 hour footage of people crying in Los Angeles and if that didn't do a good enough job of painting a picture of 'just how sad this really is' you have social commentators, Jackson biographers and finance experts all crawling out from the rocks they've been lying dormant under for decades, just waiting for their chance to be put under the spotlight to be seen pulling strings of adjectives out of their arseholes whilst they fumble around and try to remember what they're even talking about.
I understand this man was incredibly iconic but if the BBC really had their priorities even remotely close to what's actually affecting human beings in this world it would be a headline, he's died, the circumstances, very sad, 5 minutes then move on to everything else that is also ACTUALLY happening. It's like if one person hogged the conversation at the dinner table for 24 hours straight you'd tell them to fuck off. You wouldn't just endure it whilst trying to learn something important. I know it would be 'boring' if everyday we were reminded of how many tens of thousands of people had been made refugees, had their homes burnt down, women and children raped and lives completely torn apart each week but personally I find it truely offensive everytime ONE human being gets this much attention. He spent billions of pounds of antiques, toys, zoo animals, theme parks, vanity and self promotion. Sure, he gave loads to charity too but then you have to be seen to or else you can't make any more money. I don't see how people with any sense of perspective can shamelessly go out and buy all this crap for themselves whilst singing about healing the world.
sorry - had to get it off my chest.