Has CNN's most senior anchor gotten carried away with the Michael Jackson investigation and all it's drama?
Arguably the biggest culprit when it comes to creating and abetting controversies
Can the United States of America's media claim to be anything other than a drama seeking machine?
CNN, arguably the least drama-driven news network in the country, has recently shown an uncharacteristic tendency to be caught up in the many speculations surrounding Jackson's untimely death. There now seems to be an obsession on the part of one of their most senior anchors, to constantly "investigate" stories derived from some of the blatantly attention-seeking relatives and "friends" of Jackson.
Sherwell says "The King of Talk cannot shake his addiction to the King of Pop. Some 24 days after Michael Jackson's death, the veteran American chat show host Larry King remains obsessed with all the twists and turns and claims and counter-claims of the sorry saga."
"Amid the orgy of coverage after his death, there were plenty of voices on blogs and websites raising the allegations of paedophilia against the dead singer, who was acquitted of molesting a boy in a high-profile sex abuse case. But few public figures were willing to put their heads above the parapets on that front.
A notable exception was New York Republican congressman Pete King who dismissed Jackson as a "pervert" and lamented that society was "glorifying" a "low-life". He was rapidly assailed for vilifying the dead.
Never one to hide his opinions, outspoken conservative Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly decried the "phoney platitudes", criticised Jackson's "unacceptable" behaviour with children and derided the black activist preachers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for making a "racial deal" of his death. "Jackson bleached his own skin and then chose white men to provide existence for his in vitro children," he claimed." - Philip Sherwell (Telegraph)
No shame whatsoever.... vilifying a dead man
Interesting piece, and I have a feeling that it represents a view that the rest of the world, and even some Americans share.
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