Michael Jackson dead, thousands grieve, this guy, just doesn’t care anymore

This is the obligatory Michael Jackson post, however unlike most of the other articles I have seen around the blogosphere, I am not here to mourn his passing considering that he died OVER A WEEK AGO. I am here however to make the point that yes he is dead, now get over it.

The world has not ended because Wacko Jacko is dead, nor will it end anytime soon, the world kept spinning that day, though if you paid any attention to the news, or internet at the time, you would think that it was the second coming of Christ…or maybe Elvis. Unfortunately his death overshadowed the passing of several other celebrities, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon, two great people who deserved a more than a foot note on that day, especially when compared to the ‘King of Pop’.

It wasn’t even the only thing that happened that day. I can still remember switching on the TV that morning after speaking to Miranda, online, who in California, had already gotten sick of hearing about it for most of the day, and to find that the free-to-air networks had dedicated their broadcast day to repeating the same damn story they started with at the top of the hour. It wasn’t until the ‘news’ where they would give you a recap of the very same story that the ‘entertainment reporter’ was just talking about that I realised that it was a better use of my time to turn on the Xbox and to give the world a miss.
The only reason that I was aware that the world just didn’t grind to a halt was the fact that I had a copy of the daily print newspaper (yes I am a hypocrite I know) that had been printed before Jackson had been taken to the hospital, that I became aware that the world kept spinning, people still went out and killed each other, and more already sick people died of swine flu.

At this point I should be at least a little bit respective about the fact that yes a man who touched millions, (though most of those settled out of court), and I am aware that his death will have an impact on the music community, but people, it was a week ago, other stuff has happened since then, we don’t need to have every single news bulletin make some old statement that they made at the news bulletin they had the day before. Yes we are aware that he is dead, yes we are aware that he was a strange man who had odd habits, yes we are aware that the Staples Center is in Lockdown… I live in Australia, I have the entire Pacific Ocean between me and California, I don’t really care that the LA Police Commissioner is advising people to stay at home, even if I went out, its not going to have much of an impact on what happens there.

I am aware that this post is going to ruffle some feathers, but this, like my current stance on Heath Ledger is one and the same. The man is dead, nothing is going to change that, however, on that same hand, I do not need every five seconds of my waking day filled with the tiniest most insignificant piece of ‘news’ that the broadcast news services have been able to dredge up from wherever they get their information from. And yes the jokes are not funny, they were not funny at 6am the day it happened, they are not funny know, though if you have any, please send them through.

On a more serious note, Twitter should NOT be a tool to get your news, yes, I am looking right at you Channel Nine Entertainment Reporter, Richard Wilkins. Jeff Goldblum is not dead, and alas neither is Brittney Spears, yes I use Twitter to inform others of new content, I however, do not use Twitter as a means to get my news.