Now there's the memorial service on tv. Anyone watching?
Kirsten
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Now there's the memorial service on tv. Anyone watching?
Kirsten
Not me. I figure I'll check in here from time to time and find out when it's safe to turn the TV on again :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
:o Nope me Not watching.. I will sneak around the channels this evening just to avoid it all..Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
My grandson is watching, so I glance at it when I walk by, or in between chores. Like him or not, it's still sad. Unfortunately MJ played with fire and paid the ultimate price. I wonder how many of his doctors will end up losing their license over this? :( I hope MJ paid them well and made it worth their while, since whoever administered whatever caused his death, will have that on his conscience, and will have to live with it for the rest of his life.
Not watching either. I'm sorry for the man and hope he is at peace but I'm tired it. :love:
Well, it seems it's on at least 10 different channels over here! I'm not really watching, but checking in from time to time... Also, I'm not sure what to think about all this... :confused:
Kirsten
Try living out here in the LOTEA!
Every effing newsprogram starts and ends with the 'news'.
All the people who rode his coattails have come crawling from the woodworks
to talk about him. NO effing class-at least wait until the body is under ground?
The mayor and police chief are another set of AHs. Now they are complaining about the cost- 4+ million dollars for all the cops, FD and city services.
They opened up a paypal acct for donations to off set the cost.
I thought he was o.k. I never bought an album, but my toe tapped to some of his tunes. All the hoopla is probably deserved, the guy WAS popular, but the way people have been using his death for some personal benefit is very distubing and sad!
I don't have a tv at my office, but I am listening to it on the xm satellite CNN site on the computer and my husband is recording it at home for me. The live feed on the computer starts and stops so much that it is easier to just listen on the xm radio on CNN. I have really watched a lot of stuff on the tv when I could. It will start dying down soon enough, I suppose (no pun intended), but this whole thing has been way bigger than I ever thought it would be. My heart has hurt for tragic ending of what could have been a really, really good life.
I feel sorry for you Richard living out there in the hub of it all. :) I never bought any of his albums but my hubby did. I forgot about the service today and just came home from work and it is on every major channel. I don't remember this much fuss over Elvis. Was there?Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Not sure about Elvis - but there were no cable channels back then.
But remember when Princess Diana died. Another case of the world coming to a stop. Didn't understand it then; still don't understand.
What I found absolutely despicable, was that people who had gotten tickets for today's memorial thru the lottery draw, were putting them up for sale on ebay at a going price of between $10,000 - $150,000 per pair.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
How disgusting! :mad:
Me either. I remember when Kennedy died :( and felt that the days of coverage were very much needed because we were a country who was suffering so under that tremendous loss. This is something else though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
I have had the TV on in the background.
THe congresswonan and Al Sharptongue are exactly what the service needed.
Morons.
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Pam,
Weird vibe in the air out here.....not too many people/cars in the streets and the neighborhood is very quiet! Spooky.:eek:
I just finished watching his funeral. The only really sad part of it, for me, was at the end, when his little girl came on the stage.
I really, really hope those kids go to his mom and not his dad.
I saw bits and pieces of it, and from what I saw, it was rather solemn, somber, and depressing. From all the hype that had been circulating, I heard it was supposed to be a happy and joyful celebration of his life. Guess my interpretation of happy and joyful is different from those who put this event together.
Hopefully now, the media coverage will die down and we can watch t.v. without constant coverage. Enough is enough and life goes on.