Posts Tagged ‘Michael Jackson’
Live Bloging of the 2009 MTV VMAs on Tape Delay
For the first time in many years of watching and all or at least bits of the VMAs almost since their inception, I actually enjoyed all of the music. Some of the performers were old enough to drink and all could sing to some degree. The fact that I actually recognized all of them was a miracle. So thank you whoever booked the musicians. [...]
Live Bloging of the Jackson Memorial on Tape Delay
Casual observations of the day's big event. 9:03am (FOX News) News readers have to educate the audience while trying to fill time with overhead helicopter shots. Tell us about Forest Lawn Cemetery-- "Freddie Prinze is buried there." The best celebrity that FOX News' Martha MacCallum could come up with was Freddie Prinze!? Not to take [...]
Rep. Peter King Not Attending the Jackson Memorial Service
Just when you thought the Republicans couldn't shoot themselves in the foot, leg, arm, face anymore... here comes Rep. Peter King. The Long Island New York U.S. congressman and one-time senate hopeful has just taken a stand against... a dead pop icon? OK, I admit, I have been avoiding TV news outlets for the last several days. I really don't [...]
Pop Star Dies at 50 in Los Angeles
The memorial service for Michael Jackson is going to be held on July 7th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. We're only in the second week of coverage. Now the media is going to pour over the will, a possible custody battle, the autopsy, the doctor, the police procedures, and on and on. I thought that the media had reached the [...]
Stop I’ve Had Enough– Michael Jackson Didn’t Invent MTV
Ok, nobody has gone that far yet. But can we please drop this ridiculous fiction that Michael Jackson was the first Black artist on MTV. Somehow in all of these tributes and hastily produced retrospectives, The King of Pop is being hailed as the Jackie Robinson of the music video era. WRONG. Its bad enough that the media is doing it (MSNBC, [...]
