Source: Reuters
Not many people know what to expect at tomorrow's memorial service honoring the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
A red carpet guest list of celebrities from Diana Ross to Elizabeth Taylor will be there along with 8,750 fans selected from a lottery pool of more than 1.6 million entrants.
Cable news networks are preparing wall to wall coverage of the service, which some fear will lack the dignity Jackson deserves and instead resemble the bizarre circus of media attention and outlandish distractions that came to represent the last years of Michael Jackson's life.
Thousands are expected to line to the streets. A global media presence will be out in full force. Some protests are even planned. The LAPD have riot gear at the ready.
Without question, the memorial service has everyone talking. And it's also bound to have everyone watching.
But the matriarch of the Jackson family is reportedly "determined the occasion will not become an opportunistic spectacle."
Unlike many who have tried to exploit Jackson's fame over the years, those closest to the family hope that Michael's funeral will be as dignified and classy as the man was himself - a fact that was frequently obscured by the distractions born of his own immense stardom.
Michael Jackson's memorial service will be covered all day Tuesday, July 7th by my former colleagues at E! Entertainment Television. The cable network also announced simultaneous coverage at E! Online.
According to E!, coverage begins at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT.
CNN and MSNBC have also announced day-long coverage of Tuesday's service.
Comments
dignified memorial or bizarre circus? its his funeral tomorrow and ur still talking nasty things is there not one day when the media fill shut the **** up , it was u who murdered him
MJ was a great artist but hopefully we can get back to real news after today. There is a related post at iamsoannoyed.com/?p=2088
Dear ripmjforever, its not nasty, is just a true about how some people are taking advantage of Michael's dead and turned it into a profit media festival. A funeral is a way not only to say goodbye but to celebrate life and who has just part from it. It is not something that must be turned into a broadcast reality coverage which is sad cause as i love the fact that the opportunity is given to many fans to "see" him one last time, i think Michael deserves something that dignifies his legend and there's nothing more dignifying in this moment than intimacy and privacy.
All this time the media portrayed him as a crazy man, a pedophile, a bizarre human being, when Michael was just a man, a part of this world with ups and downs...and now...he is just being exposed as a piece of furniture. Sorry i respect those who think is fine. But i firmly disagree
Bizarre cicus you are, MJ tried to stay away from people like you. You can't read the soul of others, you only see the outside of people and you think you are better than all. Try harder to see the soul in others, and you won't see it, you are made of another material bizarre ha?
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