I think Michael Jackson has had an Aura of Doom about him for quite some time. If there is anyone who epitomized the prediction, "will die young", it was him. Despite his prodigious talent, his mental and physical state has been precarious for years. And certianly all the drastic and unnecessary reconstructive surgery operations cannot have helped his physical condition.
The news coverage has already been overwrought and too much. And what was Keith Olberman...who I generally like...going on about last night? As they kept showing aerial footage of the coroner's van pulling into the coroner's building, he repeatedly intoned some nonsense about no matter how important or how how high we fly, we all end up this way, as but common clay under a white sheet in a white van enroute to the grave and the worms and trying to draw some great human insight out of it...and then kept throwing it to his guest to comment on, as if there was more to be drawn from the obvious banality of the statement.
It soon became very apparent that the news orgs were just vamping and filling time, interviewing people...often some who had the most peripheral connection to MJ trying to suggest more intimacy than they actually had...who could offer nothing really newsworthy, showing the same clips that showed nothing...like the coroner clip...over and over ad nauseam. He died...that's the news...now until you have some actual real information on how and why he died, let's press on to some real news....like maybe what's happening in Iran or with Health Care...or maybe a mention of Farrah...
