Most agencies are reporting on the Michael Jackson incident with respect in their journalism, but some are not.
If you have not noticed, we have not shown ‘The Last’ picture of Jackson on Bossip; however, a magazine will be making it their front cover and payed $500,000 to do so:
All of the weekly magazines that choose to commemorate Michael Jackson on their covers will be on stands one week after the “King of Pop’s” sudden death. Look at them collectively, and you’ll find yourself in a gruesome game of “one of these things is not like the other.” Time Magazine rushed to press to put an elegant tribute out; Newsweek eloquently navigated the decision to send a Jackson cover to newsstands, and its planned book cover to subscribers; and People magazine did its usual pitch-perfect memorial. And then there is OK! magazine and the reprehensible decision to pay a reported $500,000 for the “last” picture of Jackson, which shows him lying on a stretcher, possibly already dead. OK!’s spokesperson Brian Strong says, “The cover represents an event in the history of an extremely entertaining and controversial figure and is sure to provoke some emotion and questions from readers and fans about the circumstances. The news often does.”
Provoke emotion and questions, indeed. I am angry that a) this photo exists and b) this magazine had the audacity to run it. As for questions, here’s one: How can this shameless bid for publicity (which is obviously working) be in any way justifiable?
Well, we still aren’t showing it. We feel its shameful.
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