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Television

29 June 2009

Bigger Death = Not Better Death

...on most days now, there is only one story in town. Editors no longer think high or low; just big.

This is the way things are now: live broadcasting can wait for nothing – not even death. In the 50 years that Michael Jackson lived, the rules of journalism have gone from wait-and-see to show-and-wait.

Journalism was once grandly said to be the first draft of history. We've now moved to a world in which gossip is the first draft of journalism.

Mark Lawson
"Chronicle of a Death Oversold"
guardian.co.uk 6/27/09

Jun 29, 2009 12:21:00 AM | Current Affairs, Myth, Numbers, Television

28 June 2009

My Death is Bigger Than Your Death

...Farrah Fawcett, who, in immediately being wiped from the bulletins by a bigger death, joins a melancholy sub-set including the author Aldous Huxley, who suffered the misfortune of dying at the same time that John F Kennedy was assassinated.

Mark Lawson
"Chronicle of a Death Oversold"
guardian.co.uk 6/27/09

Jun 28, 2009 4:23:51 PM | Americana, Current Affairs, Myth, Numbers, Religion, Television, Web/Tech