further decline in my country

Celebrities are falling like flies. Seriously wtf is in the water? To be honest though a select few could fall and I'd be ok with that as well. Of the three who passed last week there was no competition of who would take center stage in the news. Michael Jackson of course. Yes, the pop icon who made his way into the lives of many with his music and moon-walking-gloved-hand-swiveling-smooth-crotch-grabbing moves and then once again when he turned into a freak of nature with a kiddie park and on trial of child molestation charges. I, of course, grew up listening to Michael Jackson (it was my first cassette tape), later watched VH1 tear apart his videos with pop-up video, and of course knew of his trial and further isolation. What didn't happen though is that I never met him, never had a conversation with him, never confided in him my thoughts or trusted him with my secrets. Hell I never even attended a concert. While many did attend his concert, I highly doubt that sitting in row G in an amphitheater allowed them any intimacies with him. So, what I'm trying to ascertain is: how and why are people so fucking devastated that he died? I could actually seeing it more justifiable in Europe seeing as he was still maintaining somewhat of a touring schedule, but his own people and fans had come to disown him after his apparent decline in what is morally acceptable. Ok, so maybe he was acquitted, and he never actually touched a child in a manner that could be perceived as vulgar, but if the man so loved children he should have fucking been doing something for the children who don't have homes, those not privileged enough to play in his kiddie park, those roaming the streets as troubled youth.

if all this is not bad enough let's talk about how we seem to have all but forgotten what is going on in the rest of the world. oh say like the current situation in Iran or oh wait how about the fact that North Korea would like to begin blowing up the world one country at a time with the exception of perhaps Russia, Iran, and China. the newspapers would rather cover the death of a man who has only been a source of media scrutiny because of his freakishness then shit that really matters.