Media watch - will we even hear about events in Iran now Jacko is dead?

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Just wondering. It's a good way of seeing if the media is as unbiased and utilitarian as it claims - or if it just follows sensation to get the punters

It will be like a re-run of the 'Princess Di Queen of Hearts' bollocks again. MJ will be feted as an innovative and amazing King of Pop and all of his weirdness will be brushed under the table. Anyone who dares criticise him from now on will be 'in denial' or a bitch.

So goodbye news for a while.

Well you can't libel the dead so shall we get started?

Never liked the man, constantly grabbing his crotch like he has a social disease!

What?!!!! MJ is dead? I'm going to have to look that up, i had no idea

who on earth believes the media is unbiased and utilitarian??

unfrotunately, most people will want to hear about Michael Jackson than Iran.

twas ever thus

i have been extremely critical of him in the past, but he has literally just died, i dont think that picking him apart today is the right thing. surely he should be afforded a bit of respect?

anyway, it takes peoples' minds off the recession, which apparently is over and swine flu.

he didn't look in the best of health tbh

OMG, just looked at Sky News. They have a picture of a worker in Manila showing off a newly printed t-shirt, "Michael Jackson, Thank you for the music"

How tacky is that?

He's less then 24 hours dead.

He might have been a complete loon but a little respect, if just for today, is due. He was a human being. An odd one yes, but still a human being.

And I don't think the media has ever claimed to be "unbiased and utilitarian" has it?

WILL THE MUMSNET
be WORN THIN today?

bets on who is the first to post "I am crying here"

did oyu see the NUTTERS in LA?
crying

Im wiht callisto
he was at the best misguided, at the worst probably a paedophile

I was just going to start this thread!
No disrepct to MJ but - Iran, Pakistan, Afganistan, global financial crisis, swine flu, MPs scandal....

Fair enough to headline on R1, but Today on R4 was dominated by it. Sometimes I feel as though I must think completely different things to the whole rest of the country and find it very irritating when people say things like 'the whole world is in shock'. Really. do you think so? Even people living in refugee camps / being blown up by car bombs / dying of AIDs etc. FFS

dh lay in bed saying "whocares, who CARES, WHo cares"
with diffo emphasis

dunno bbc were talking about metal detectors when gmtv were on about jackson

like it or not, it is news and newsworthy

yes, there is an awful lot of other real tragedy occurring, but the death of pop icon ,who was one of the most famous men in the world, is news.

to 1000s of people, this is news

it might not be highbrow , but people want to know

slebs are more a part of our culture than ever before

dotn make it right

doesn't make what right?

should only highbrow news or real tragedy ever make the news?

Of course it's news, just not as important as loads of other stuff. Certainly not important enough to dominate the only 'highbrow' news prog on the radio in the morning!

Well, they never even mentioned in on Look North.

DH called last night to tell me he'd caught a fish. Then he told me he had a weird pain in his foot. Then asked me to update his liability insurance in the morning. Then he told me he'd had a text about MJ.

Correct order of priority, IMO.

You're going to hear One Day In Your Life so many times you'll spontaneously combust, mark my words.

Sally Taylor gave it a miss too

My DH told me first thing this morning, before news of DD's stinky nappy. He said 'The King of Pop is dead'. Mind you, he was a bit of a fan in his younger days.

Why would it have any bearing on whether the media is biased?

Did you hear about Michael Jackson's dog's penis?

EugeneHCrabs - I think you may have misheard your hubby - but he's wrong. I really don't care

cod is that you?