Jackson death is rescuing the news media

The nonstop coverage of the death of Michael Jackson is probably a shot in the arm for the TV coffers, and the reporters who are bored with the constant, blind folded building up of Team-O. There is important, critical stuff going on in Washington that will affect our lives for years, but instead of analysis or criticism or even reading the bills (God forbid the Czar of czars and the Congressional clowns should have no clothes) the coverage 24/7 is Jackson's death, his contribution to music and dance, his home, his last rehearsals, his health, his debts, his white children, his ex-wives, his lawyers, his medical team, his will, his estranged family (who suddenly miss him) and so on. I don't think anyone has interviewed his gay lovers for broadcast TV, but bloggers are talking if you care to go there. Well, there's something else dying, and that's our independent press and media. Oh, how I miss the days of scrutinizing every move and thought of George W. Bush. These folks have their jobs on the line too, and so they are grasping at anything that will increase viewship. Ghoul$.