Michael Jackson - Media ppl - Please let him RIP!

Michael Jackson, one of the most iconic pop singers the world has ever known and will ever know, is no more. He wasn't just a singer or a dancer. He was a PHENOMENON. But one that nobody could explain!

And now that he is gone, that too so suddenly, the media has gone berserk. I always keep thinking everytime the media covers an event/story, that this is it - they really cant stoop lower than this. This is the pits. And just like the phoenix rising from the ashes, they just beat me. Every single time. They just outdo themselves in how low they can stoop and to what depth they can fall to, just to get a nice juicy story.

They just are not able to come to terms with the fact that he died of a cardiac arrest. That it could be as simple as that. I mean why would they when you come to think of it - Pop Superstar dies of cardiac arrest. Period. What next? This kind of news would be fodder for just a couple of days. Nothing exciting about it right. So what do they do? Spice it up. Tadka mar ke. He was doing drugs. His doctor conspired. Maybe he is still alive. The body was his body doubles. Maybe he was murdered. Endless of such theories. I sat in utter disbelief and absolute disgust watching some of the topmost media channels in India (both English and Hindi) playing out such a news item. A popular music 'youth icon' channel had a ticker running at the bottom which was anything but a tribute - it was ridiculing all the things he did wrong in his life - from his drug abuse to him dangling a baby in front of the media. And what are we expected to do - laugh at the things written in this ticker? Take it light? Is this what the youth of today is meant to symbolise? To smirk at someone even in their death? And such a kind of a channel claims to be the 'nerve center' of todays youth? Absolute, utter crap.

All the media wants to just milk his last moments too. Its like such a simple, straight forward death was something disgusting that MJ did for them. Couldnt he have died in a headline-exploding kind of fashion? Like a suicide maybe? Which may have had them churning out of stories for atleast a month? Anyways, they are doing their best to try and come up with as many stories and versions to keep people hooked and engaged.

I just cant overcome the disgust. Its about time that a regulatory authority was set up for our media channels. In their hunger for just about any remotely juicy news bit, they have fallen so low that they probably dont even know the kind of abyss they have fallen into it. It probably doesnt matter to them. They perhaps have gotten way too numb to feel anything. Who cares you are in an abyss? As long as you can provide an 'entertaining' news story.

I am sure this endless speculation about the King of Pops death is going to keep this bunch of circus clowns quiet busy for a while. Some of them have features on his wacko ways and his 'troubled life'. One of the blogs stated that he was never able to love himself. Agreed. Probably thats an accurate assessment. But so what?? Anyone who has ready his brief life story (wikipedia has a good one) would be horrified beyond their gut at what he went through. I am just shell shocked that someone could even get past such a tortured childhood to become someone so iconic. Did he abuse those kids? Maybe he did. Maybe he didnt. And if he did, he certainly certainly was in the wrong. Being insecure and feeling sorry for yourself or being a big star doesn't give you the right to abuse anybody else. But what I want to say is that all this is besides the point now. Now that he is gone, doesnt he deserve to be left alone. To truly REST IN PEACE. Or is that just another term that has become so fancy with the media people to use and print, that the very significance of the phrase itself has been lost on them?

Michael, dont bother about the media circus playing down here. Just be oblivious to it all. For of all the times, it is now, that you truly need to and deserve to REST IN PEACE.