Came home from the pub at midnight to find out more about Jacko's death (and to rewrite some copy I'd just filed about The O2 Arena – whoops). But of course, instead of further information, on the 24-hour news channels it was all filler and no Thriller...Sky News The first to commit to "He's died" (why do I keep hearing "Who's Bad?" when I see that?), but after that there was simply a reporter quacking on over a helicopter shot of fans on a central reservation outside the hospital. He'd basically launched Spotify on his computer and started reading out song titles. And then he talked about the live shows as "son et lumière extravaganzas". Son et lumière? Are you saying Michael Jackson performed classical music favourites with a laser display at Leeds Castle?
BBC News 24 Same deal but with a voiceover who knew what the hell he was talking about.
CNN Had all the actual info first - an inaudible interview with the LA County Coroner and the footage of the ambulance (how slow was that to reverse out of the gates? No wonder he was DOA). But after that they basically wheeled out a parade of ghoulish rock journos who'd obviously raced to the studio, elbowing each other out of the way to get publicity for their blogs. Lucky bastards.
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