WTF?!! One more thing re: Michael Jackson death.

[hippie_chick]

FUCK you Entertainment Tonight! No really FUCK you for showing pictures of Michael Jackson on that stretcher! FUCK any other media outlet that chooses to go this route as well. He was already DEAD by that time! It's just sick, sick and WRONG. Are we all really THAT goddamn twisted and morbid that we NEED to see these things?! REALLY, are we?!

NO it isn't closure. NO it does not make it more "real" to me. It's just the same sensationalistic bullshit that haunted him these last few years of his life. He wrote the song "Leave Me Alone" for a REASON. As a response to these bottom feeders at the tabloids. We're watching the scene at the hospital yesterday and I'm seeing so many there... milling around. I said to mom it has to be mostly press and paparazzi because stretcher shots are money shots, and everyone wanted to be first with any family reactions. It was just as much a circus around him in death as in life. I only thought about how any emergency vehicles etc could easily get in and out of there. It's a hospital!!

"John Travolta - Let Her In (1976)" (Watch on YouTube)

I hate ET anyway, it's only a tabloid in TV form. They go for drama and sensationlism for ratings. It's sad and pathetic and they should be ASHAMED. I'm done even casually tuning in to that show now. DONE.

They all did the same thing to Heath Ledger when he died.

No I am not linking you to ET Online. Go there if you absolutely MUST and see what I'm talking about. God damn.

Comments

[dianthus-pink.livejournal.com]

I haven't been a fan of MJ since middle school but I agree with you, showing him on a stretcher is just disgusting. I admit to liking dramariffic celebrity gossip but the dead deserve a little privacy. I haven't watched ET or any news coverage over the recent deaths and I think I'll keep it that way.

[hippie-chick.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with some good gossip, no. But when they get invasive, personal and intrusive, I have to draw the line, you know?

[morgi.livejournal.com]

I heard about that shot from a coworker. I don't hold any sort of mystical significance to death, but jeez, that's just intrusive and disrespectful!

[hippie-chick.livejournal.com]

That is my main problem with this. It's intrusive. Disrespectful.

[morgi.livejournal.com]

I just read from a blog near where I guess the family lives now that the place is an absolute zoo. I mean, I guess it's a nice idea to want to pay tribute, but I'm thinking the family needs some peace right now!

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, that's just horrible. No one deserves to be treated like that. Even if it was someone loathesome like Hugh Hefner or Donald Trump or even Paris Hilton -- we may hate them, but they still have friends and family who do NOT need to be subjected to that kind of crap.

[hippie-chick.livejournal.com]

COMPLETELY agreed.

Allow the deceased some dignity, you know? Show some respect and thought for their friends and loved ones.

xxoo!