I nearly complained about the MJ coverage – ludicrous.

I’m more pissed off that they shifted the Robin Hood finale onto BBC2 because of the tennis so even setting my VCR to record an extra hour ‘just in case’ meant I missed it, then pushed the BBC3 repeat back a week because of Glastonbury.

Just when it was finally getting good.

Bastards.

Most of the expense claim ’scandals’ were trivial but I’d still prefer a corrupt organisation to an incompetent one.

But yet nothing on Farrah Fawcett

“A Media Guardian story today uncovers the interesting nugget that the BBC has received more complaints over excessive coverage on Michael Jackson’s death than the expenses of its own senior management.”

So?

The wall to wall coverage of it on Friday was OTT – but to continue into Friday evening, and then across the weekend, and into the next week- totally unacceptable

Will Mollie Sugden get the same coverage?

Will Gordon Brown?

Will all the dead UK servicemen and women?

Oh my daze, they’re still talking abt him on the BBC!!! Does anyone still care?

We should be blaming the consumers, i.e. the people who watch TV, not just the media companies. They wouldn’t be covering this in so much detail were it not for people out there who actually watch it. There are, after all, at least 800,000 people who wanted to see Jacko perform at the O2.

How about we start going after the public for a change, rather than attacking systems or institutions?

This clip is instructive: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=27029997

Shorter cjcjc: “Fuckin’ coon music.”

Oi, cjcjc’s a right winger, but one that occasionally contributes constructively to the discussions here.

Where do you get off accusing him of being a racist? That’s totally out of line.

This is a non-story, people will complain about anything, there are far too many people with far too much time on their hands… including cjcjc (didn’t think I do a whole comment being nice to you, did you?).

Hey, there is a difference between wanting to see Jacko perform (you know, he was a pretty good one!) and wanting to see his death splashed across our screens for days on end. You can’t hold ticket holders responsible.

@10
I agree with you that individual responsibility is often passed over, we get what we deserve/

@11
You’re a tit mate, ease up with your bullshit.

The BBC coverage has been about as wacko as Jacko. The news website actually had the headline: “World mourns Jackson death”! The whole world, 7 billion people all morning MJ, like fuck they were.