As I write this, we are in Day 5 memorializing the life and death of Michael Jackson, the self-styled King of Pop, who hasn't put out any new music in years. Whatever's been released has been greatest-hits packages. For almost a solid week we've been subjected to every little blurb from the family, friends, and people who came into contact with Jackson in the past, no matter how fleeting or incidental.
About 45 years ago, John F. Kennedy, the president of the United States, was assassinated. The president ws gunned down on a Friday and was buried that Monday. The TV stations broadcast non-stop Kennedy for 3 days, but the minute the president was laid to rest , then it was back to business as usual for the TV networks.
It angers me that at least one TV network every day has some new or re-hashed news about Jackson's death, but a president who was murdered only warranted three days.