Michael Jackson: A Legacy We Aren't Allowed to Forget.

Michael JacksonMichael Jackson, the 'King of Pop', died on June 25th, 2009 and nobody can yet find reason to shut up about it. The coverage of Michael Jackson has lost no steam as it drives through hour after hour of news coverage from every major news and non-news channel alike. Major news sources nearly lost reason to commit 18-19 hours of air time to the death of Michael Jackson after the autopsy results came back and his entire network of friends and family ranging from his sister Janet, brother Tito, or just any douche with a candle standing near his home were interviewed for their reaction and thoughts. However, their saving grace came when on July 7th stars gathered to remember Jackson in a memorial service that was so grand in size, scope, and length, that it made the Presidential Inauguration look like an assistant managers promotion party at the Foot Locker. Now with hours of newly bolstered Michael Jackson media resources, the networks can settle in and focus on committing hours of time to remember the time they remembered the times of Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson has had his share of controversy in his career that has spanned 40+ years, and the networks couldn't care less as they unanimously agree that that guy could really dance. With their fingers ever on the pulse of public opinion, major networks have spent the last decade jeering at the eccentric 'King of Pop' for his bizarre skeletor-like looks and wacky child-molestation charges in order to sell whatever it is they wanted to sell. Now feeling the tide of public opinion ebb away from disgust over his sordid past and return to the blind, fanatical love once held by so many, they quickly turn their opinions over to honor the herd's frantic baying of support in an effort to sell whatever it is they want to sell, and completely ruin their journalistic integrity.

However, if you were a fan of not being a fan of Michael Jackson, some networks have found time to sandwich in news pieces of his controversial molestation charges between short two-minute segments of horrifying car bombs that killed dozens in Baghdad, or new soldier's deaths in Iraq. However, it will remain at minimal coverage as there is no denying that the public wants to honor a true entertainer, and will gladly take another artists' cover of 'Billy Jean', over footage of the child's teary-eyed recount of the night Jackson molested him any time. Also making news in a related side story, the child whom has accused Michael Jackson of molesting him has been found to be a total gold-digger doing whatever he can to get attention and can look forward to a life of deserved ridicule and social isolation for daring to spread slanderous lies about the 'King of Pop.'

Jackson is survived by three children who will likely divide up his expansive million-dollar estate between them. This in spite of new reports that Jackson's kids are not actually biologically connected to him in any way, and that Jackson did little more than buy them off of a chubby, white girl who was willing to be totally blindsided by fame, power, and some pretty sweet dance moves. She was quoted as saying to the esteemed 'King of Pop', "Let me do this. You need to be a dad." Thus giving up her children up for what the media has coined as "really good fathering" in suspension of the old term "really bad mothering."

There is sure to be more news to come from the Michael Jackson camp, but even if there isn't, there will still be plenty of day and night coverage of it. The dwindling amount of fresh news is no reason you can't call off work and stand on Jackson's lawn with one of his Cd's and wave at the camera in the background of a news report while screaming into your cell phone, "Dude, I'm totally on TV!" Michael Jackson is sure to be a legacy we will all remember, as statistically it is impossible for us not to. He will be remembered for his songs, his charity-work, his dancing, and for inventing the word 'shamonay.' And definitely not for molesting children.