So every news channel – including Fox – broadcast the memorial service. Why?

I haven’t cared about Michael Jackson for two decades. His last decent album was Bad – and I didn’t like more than a couple of singles off that. Michael Jackson spent some of the past two decades experimenting with video and business, having surrogate children, pseudo-wives, and the rest of the time trying to maintain his inner child as his outer reality got older. He became a traveling sideshow – not an artist. He was surrounded by sycophants and leeches – not friends and family. He was never going to perform those concerts. No matter how much video they show of the rehearsals – it wasn’t going to happen. He was too weak – either ill or maybe crazy. If he had the chops – why was that benefit single for the victims of Katrina never finished?

Michael Jackson became a lost soul and we all know it. And everyone around him let it happen. How did he die? Trust me – we will never know the truth. Michael lived and died in a fantasy land and the media and his fans are quite happy to maintain that fantasy forever. Maybe the weight of maintaining that fantasy – for himself and millions of others – is the real cause of death. But that’s not a surprise and it’s not news.

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