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64% of Americans Say Media Overplayed Michael Jackson Story
Written on 9 Jul, 2009 at 17:46 in Entertainment, Featured | viewed 591 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Nearly two in three Americans said news organizations gave too much coverage to the sudden death of Michael Jackson in the days following his June 25 heart attack in Los Angeles, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. While 64 percent deemed media attention to the 50-year-old pop superstar excessive, 29 percent thought it was appropriate and only 3 percent thought there was not enough coverage. Full Story : Adweek.com….
Web slows after Jackson’s death
Written on 26 Jun, 2009 at 10:31 in Featured, Technology | viewed 227 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson’s death. Search giant Google confirmed to the BBC that when the news first broke it feared it was under attack. Millions of people who Googled the star’s name were greeted with an error page rather than a list of results. The microblogging service Twitter crashed with the sheer volume of people using the service. Full Story : BBC.com….
Michael Jackson Dies
Written on 25 Jun, 2009 at 18:26 in Entertainment, Featured | viewed 722 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
TMZ.com just reported that Michael Jackson has died. He was 50. Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back. Full Story : TMZ.com….