This commentator had to sit in a car dealer waiting room today trapped in front of the television for a couple of hours during the morning talk shows. Incredibly no other news was covered, only Michael Jackson. Even Farrah Fawcett was slighted. One would think that a major figure in world history, nay universe history, had passed away. And then the coverage was all adulation. Not a word of Jackson's scandalous past, including his being charged with sexual abuse of children.
If a well-known Catholic priest who had been accused of sexual abuse of children died suddenly, the media would only talk about the dark spot in the priest's background. Michael Jackson dies and nary a word of his dark past is spoken. Just the opposite, he is elevated to a great cultural icon.
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