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Peter King bashing Michael Jackson in video was 'Bad' idea
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...ng_michael_jackson_in_video_was_bad_idea.html
Rep. Peter King has established a reputation over the years as a public official who speaks for regular Americans — people who believe that common sense and straight talk are what America needs to be about.
But when it comes to Michael Jackson, Rep. King (R, L.I.) should have kept his mouth shut.
King made a short video over the weekend in which he called Jackson a “lowlife” and a “child molester” and reamed the media for paying such obsessive attention to the drama that has surrounded his death.
On the first point, a lot of people agree with King. On the second, there can certainly be a valid debate on whether the media has overcovered Jackson in death as it overcovered him in life.
What isn’t necessary, or helpful, is to insult Jackson and his fans out of frustration over this level of coverage.
Anyone who feels the Jackson story has been overplayed has an immediate and 100% effective solution at hand: Ignore it. Put down the newspaper. Turn off the TV. Click on something else.
As for Jackson’s personal conduct, the truth is we don’t know all the truth. He was tried for child molestatation and acquitted, and one imagines that someone who believes as strongly in the American system as Rep. King would respect that.
What adds nothing to that discussion is to accuse anyone who grieves over Jackson, or media that cover the Jackson story, of thereby ignoring policemen, firemen, veterans and soldiers.
What exactly does distress over Michael Jackson’s death have to do with one’s respect for the police officer on the corner, or the soldier in Afghanistan?
When Rep. King portrays himself as a man who marches in Fourth of July parades and therefore is a better American than someone who mourns Michael Jackson, or writes about Michael Jackson, he’s serving only himself.
Michael Jackson fans are a wide cross-section of Americans, and as the last week has proven, a deep one, too.
Anyone who thinks less media coverage would have resulted in substantially less attention to Jackson’s death just doesn’t have an ear to the ground. Those hundreds of thousands of people who may descend on Los Angeles tomorrow didn’t get the idea by watching “Inside Edition.” They’re there because Michael Jackson’s singing and dancing made some permanent and wonderful impression on their lives.
Sure, the Jackson family fanned the media flame by deciding to hold a public memorial, and it can be argued that a private ceremony might have given Michael a final dash of dignity.
Peter King bashing Michael Jackson in video was 'Bad' idea
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...ng_michael_jackson_in_video_was_bad_idea.html
Rep. Peter King has established a reputation over the years as a public official who speaks for regular Americans — people who believe that common sense and straight talk are what America needs to be about.
But when it comes to Michael Jackson, Rep. King (R, L.I.) should have kept his mouth shut.
King made a short video over the weekend in which he called Jackson a “lowlife” and a “child molester” and reamed the media for paying such obsessive attention to the drama that has surrounded his death.
On the first point, a lot of people agree with King. On the second, there can certainly be a valid debate on whether the media has overcovered Jackson in death as it overcovered him in life.
What isn’t necessary, or helpful, is to insult Jackson and his fans out of frustration over this level of coverage.
Anyone who feels the Jackson story has been overplayed has an immediate and 100% effective solution at hand: Ignore it. Put down the newspaper. Turn off the TV. Click on something else.
As for Jackson’s personal conduct, the truth is we don’t know all the truth. He was tried for child molestatation and acquitted, and one imagines that someone who believes as strongly in the American system as Rep. King would respect that.
What adds nothing to that discussion is to accuse anyone who grieves over Jackson, or media that cover the Jackson story, of thereby ignoring policemen, firemen, veterans and soldiers.
What exactly does distress over Michael Jackson’s death have to do with one’s respect for the police officer on the corner, or the soldier in Afghanistan?
When Rep. King portrays himself as a man who marches in Fourth of July parades and therefore is a better American than someone who mourns Michael Jackson, or writes about Michael Jackson, he’s serving only himself.
Michael Jackson fans are a wide cross-section of Americans, and as the last week has proven, a deep one, too.
Anyone who thinks less media coverage would have resulted in substantially less attention to Jackson’s death just doesn’t have an ear to the ground. Those hundreds of thousands of people who may descend on Los Angeles tomorrow didn’t get the idea by watching “Inside Edition.” They’re there because Michael Jackson’s singing and dancing made some permanent and wonderful impression on their lives.
Sure, the Jackson family fanned the media flame by deciding to hold a public memorial, and it can be argued that a private ceremony might have given Michael a final dash of dignity.
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