U.S. Representative calls Michael Jackson a “lowlife” and a “pervert”, says media is shaming itself devoting so much coverage (24 hours a days, it seems). Well yes, that’s all true, Mr. King, but if they didn’t divert the mobs’ attention to this circus they’d have to cover real news, and there’s no market for that.
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Reality is much of US economy depends upon industries like entertainment/sports, tourism, retailing, illegal drugs, etc; where else does one occupy millions of illiterate/innumerate kids who no longer can look forward to lucrative UAW jobs, but find similarly lucrative unionized, skill-free, work-free government jobs to be “uncool”???