Michael Jackson Dead at 50

[curiosityandthecat]

Sha'mon.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.

Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince "Blanket" Michael Jackson II.

http://bit.ly/19f8Xb

[rlrose328]

All of the standard news sources state he has been hospitalized but that's it... is TMZ trustworthy?


And in the comments, there is at least one "it's always in 3s" comment.  How close do celebrity deaths have to be for it to be counted as 3?  Week? Month?  Year?  So silly.

[Whitney]

And in the comments, there is at least one "it's always in 3s" comment.  How close do celebrity deaths have to be for it to be counted as 3?  Week? Month?  Year?  So silly.

I saw an atheist make that comment on Twitter too...  Anyway, the 3 would be the plane today who had an old woman die in flight then blew a tire on landing...or are they waiting on a 3 now too.   , yes silly.

OK! Magazine also confirms pop star Michael Jackson has passed away. It says the hospital remains on lockdown.

http://twitter.com/BreakingNews

None of the big news stations have confirmed yet though.  

This is funny:

@tweetus_christ: is hiding the kids for obvious reasons.

[curiosityandthecat]

The big news outlets have face to lose if they're wrong. Anybody care if TMZ or OK! makes a mistake? Hell, no! Haha. It's just a matter of time. Entities like TMZ pay people at hospitals in and around Hollywood to feed them information. I'd say it's trustworthy.

As far as the "in 3s" thing goes, I'm going with Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. But, as I tweeted earlier, none of them was relevant in any meaningful way last week; death doesn't change that.

 

[Chimera]

Major news networks are now confirming that he has died. This is sort of stunning. I guess this is what it felt like for my parents when Elvis died.

[Squid]

Nah, Elvis talked him into this.

[Dragon_Of_Heavon]

Well it has been confirmed that at the age of fifty Michael Jackson has deceased due to a heart attack. Personally I believe that it is terrible to attack the dead. He should be remembered in the light of the good he did rather than the allegations. A farewell to the King of Pop.

[thiolsulfate]

Michael who?

[Heretical Rants]

I didn't believe it when I first heard it

I never really listened to his music.

[Sophus]

I'm surprised but not shocked.

[Ihateyoumike]

Good music. Bad man. I can't mourn a child molester.

Plus, his career died many a year ago.

[Whitney]

Good music. Bad man. I can't mourn a child molester.

Plus, his career died many a year ago.

I don't get why people are more upset about him than Farrah Fawcett (she died today too)...was it because his death was unexpected?  Maybe people are upset about MJ more because it demonstrates the fragility of life than they are about him being gone.

[AlP]

I live next to a park in San Francisco. A bunch of people just turned up in the park and started dancing to Michael Jackson's music. It seems unorganized. People are just walking by and joining in. I haven't seen anything like this happen following the death of a celebrity. Has anyone else noticed similar happenings?

[thiolsulfate]

I don't get why people are more upset about him than Farrah Fawcett (she died today too)...was it because his death was unexpected?  Maybe people are upset about MJ more because it demonstrates the fragility of life than they are about him being gone.

It think it's because Michael Jackson's been an oddity for the past 15 years and his death just gives it an odd conclusion.

I'll be honest though; I don't really care that either of them died. I especially don't care for the two and a half to three hours of wall to wall coverage given to Michael Jackson's death when what I really wanted to know is if the Iranians actually did stage their mass protest today in the face of now violent oppression.

In case you missed it, there was no mass protest in Tehran, but all the shops have closed. Moussavi is still absent from the scene. The family of Neda, the girl who was shot in the chest by Iranian Security for having had the bad luck to have been in the general vicinity of a protest, has gone missing. Leaders of the opposition to Ahmadinejad's have gone missing as well. Some former opposition candidates have capitulated. While every other election in the Middle East has finally shown a trend away from theocracy and inching towards liberal-democracy, in Iran people are being killed and going missing. Any hopes of diplomacy are evaporating as Iran is cloistering.

-- and somehow Michael Jackson's death is more newsworthy than that.

I have five news sources on my google homepage: New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, le Monde and News. The top story on each is Michael Jackson. Where the hell are our priorities.

[Sophus]

Good music. Bad man. I can't mourn a child molester.

Plus, his career died many a year ago.

Wasn't he found not guilty? I'm not an MJ fan but I think you're being a bit presumptuous considering the jury was given more information than we were.