Agreed - Michael Jackson had talent. I prefered seeing him as a child star and in his earlier appearances before his plastic surgery forays.
To get this magnitude of attention at the time of his death shows the state and mentality of so many of our population. Enough already - let's pay more attention to the state of our economy, health care and our armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let's get with it.

Less boring than a summer of sharks. Not as interesting as Diana's death. About equal to JFK Jr. gone missing. Not as juicy and not as big a frenzy as Monica Lewinsky's testimony before Ken Starr's grand jury (that summer, most political junkies knew these names: Bill Ginsburg, Jacob Stein, Plato Cacheris--to be honest, aren't we political junkies just as guilty of filling our heads with useless junk sometimes?) Those are the ones that come to mind right away.

You do realize that it's because people that put together other news go on vacation, and also because audiences are smaller because they are also on vacation? They pick one story that will deliver an audience, getting any audience in summer is tough, and they put everyone that's around on it. Josh Marshall himself used that excuse June 19 for not covering health care reform better. They don't call a certain genre of books "summer reading" for no reason.