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.
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”???