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News & ArtsMonday, June 29, 2009
Media Us Magazine Wins World's Worst Timing Award
Posted by Anthony Hecht on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Us Magazine's homepage is basically nothing but Michael Jackson hagiography now, but they sent the latest print edition to press before Jackson died.
Whoops.
Oh, the perils of print..
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And people ask why there's so much hoopla over his death. LOOK AT HIM! Add in "junkie being robbed and controlled by the Nation of Islam" and you've got the story of the millennium. Anna Nicole who?
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Disastrous plastic surgery aside, MJ always had an interesting/cool sense of style. Who cares if it's technically women's clothing?
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I don't get it. Why was this an example of bad timing?
On an only semi-related note, I was on a long international flight back from a vacation abroad over the weekend and was unable to sleep while almost everyone around me was dozing peacefully, except this retard across the aisle who was carefully studying that very issue of US magazine as if she was going to be given an exam at the end of reading it. She'd get to the back cover, then go back to re-"read" the articles she'd already "read" several times. I recognize that it was me who was overtired and keyed up, but I still wanted more than anything to reach across the aisle, take the magazine away from her, and then throw it someplace else on the plane.
BTW, if I'd only stayed a few extra days out of country, where I managed to avoid TV, the web and cell phone usage, I could have managed to go on without ever knowing MJ had died.
On an only semi-related note, I was on a long international flight back from a vacation abroad over the weekend and was unable to sleep while almost everyone around me was dozing peacefully, except this retard across the aisle who was carefully studying that very issue of US magazine as if she was going to be given an exam at the end of reading it. She'd get to the back cover, then go back to re-"read" the articles she'd already "read" several times. I recognize that it was me who was overtired and keyed up, but I still wanted more than anything to reach across the aisle, take the magazine away from her, and then throw it someplace else on the plane.
BTW, if I'd only stayed a few extra days out of country, where I managed to avoid TV, the web and cell phone usage, I could have managed to go on without ever knowing MJ had died.
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This embodies what has really been bothering me about all this: up to the last minute before he died, the MEdia ridiculed him, and now suddenly it is romanticizing him.
always making money off of people. totally disgusting.
always making money off of people. totally disgusting.
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The worst timing award went to the National Enquirer for using "Sex Mad Di: 'I Can't Get Enough!'" the week Diana, the Princess of Wales, died in a car accident.
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#9 for the win.
I know just a week ago most people upon hearing Micheal Jackson would have been worried about protecting their kids from the "guy". Now he is a Saint? WTF?!?!?
I know just a week ago most people upon hearing Micheal Jackson would have been worried about protecting their kids from the "guy". Now he is a Saint? WTF?!?!?
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