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Michael Jackson & Barack Obama: Who Wins?

Posted by SWARAAJ CHAUHAN, International Columnist in Arts & Entertainment, Health, International, Media, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science & Technology, Society.
Jul 7th, 2009 | Comments

One may hate Michael Jackson, or love him madly, or remain totally indifferent to him, but one just can’t ignore this musical phenomenon and his mass appeal. Jackson’s memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles is expected to be an even bigger global internet video-viewing event than the inauguration of US President Barack Obama, reports ANI.

A Michael Jackson page at Facebook has already topped 6.5 million fans, unseating Obama’s “fan page” as the most popular at the California-based social networking service.

“We are preparing for numbers that easily outweigh the inauguration. There is just so much global reach for this star; something about him or his music has touched people around the world,” the Telegraph quoted Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing director, as saying. More here…

At least 16 major television networks are planning live coverage of Michael Jackson’s memorial service, making it one of the biggest Michael Jackson televised event of the year after the January 20 inauguration of President Barack Obama, reports The Economic Times. The pop legend, 50, died after a suspected cardiac arrest on June 25.

CNN will start its coverage at 9 am local time with Anderson Cooper, Larry King and Don Lemon as anchors, while MSNBC will begin its coverage at 8 am, with Chris Jansing anchoring. Shepard Smith will anchor for Fox News.

As many as 88 movie theaters in 31 States too would be showing live the memorial service. More here…

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chrisny007

I can’t believe he is really gone. Looking at his videos and photos Im very sad. I am watching and listening live of the memorial in LA since sadly I did not win a ticket.
You can do the same here and feel like you are right there!

http://tinyurl.com/MJPortalPage

herbisyou

It's called "global brainwashing " - and also a way for the rich debt holders to get money from Jackson, they would have never gotten had he not died.

Genuis? the man ( thats right man, not Petert Pan, or boy ) did not read or write music. He did not write his own songs', he paid people to write them, in some cases even paying for the right to authorship .

he did not have the technical abiltiy to produce his own video's, other people used thier genuis to make him look good.

And white America loves black men that aren't really black, and ummm...scary

jillewilliamson

I can now see why 1.6 million wanted to be in California. The Jackons, especially Michael exemplifies the magic of music, they are PURE MUSICAL GENIUSES in sorrow and in joy just as the British intellectual icon, the Imafidons are magical about Mathematics and numbers (www.imafidon.com).

The tone of the concert, or service was finely balanced. The daughter’s speech was fantastic hope the genius also robbed off on her. Long live the king of Pop.

Makinde

Long live the King of PoP - Michael Jackson

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