Strangechord

How else to explain last Thursday’s orgy of Michael Jackson coverage on CNN - hours of choppercam shots of airport runways and police station parking lots - on the day that Bush was being trashed in effigy in London, 27 people were killed and 400 injured by truck bombs in Turkey, a U.S.-Canada task force report on the causes of August’s massive blackout was released and who knows how many U.S. troops were becoming casualties in Iraq?

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