Why was mainstream media slow at reporting Michael Jackson’s death
Remember immediately after Michael Jackson died last Thursday, the news of his death spread like wild fire on several social network sites including Twitter and Facebook.
However, various news outlets including CNN and MSNBC were still reporting that Jackson was hospitalized, but he was still alive.
I was confused that day, and I didn’t know what to believe. TMZ said Jackson was dead, but most reputable news organization said he was still alive.
Why was the mainstream media slow at reporting Jackson’s death? My colleague Alan Herzberger wrote an interesting blog explaining why most news organizations were hesitant to report Jackson had died.
Herzberger is the digital managing editor for OPUBCO and NewsOK.com. Click here to read the blog post.
Tim Henley
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Dear Sir
I thought you might be interested to know that when news came out about Michael Jacksons death …. poets the world over wrote tribute poems to put on our poetry site … we immediatly got their permission to publish and withinfive days we have launched the book… it was released 06/07/2009… attached is a picture of the front and back cover…
Here too is a tribute video about the book on youtube…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8dl4i-IknM
Pat Simpson…