Bad day for celebrities

[Aggie_Ama]

I am educated as a journalist but not working as one. Most journalists would rather report on the real news but papers are a business and Michael Jackson's death will sell a lot of papers in a time when their market share is very small. You can't really blame the media for trying to keep themselves in business. Every professor told us the same thing "if it bleeds, it leads". One called it "fascination with the abomination", more news on the crappy economy isn't going to get the casual consumer to buy a paper but a celebrity death might. It was shocking due to his age, you know there is way more to the story (he was supposedly an addict) and he was larger than life to many people.

I have been totally sucked into this articale on a local plane that crashed in Arizona and was smuggling drugs. It is way more interesting than the lastest unemployment rates.

[PamNY]

I am educated as a journalist but not working as one. Most journalists would rather report on the real news but papers are a business and Michael Jackson's death will sell a lot of papers in a time when their market share is very small. You can't really blame the media for trying to keep themselves in business.

You will never, ever convince even highly intelligent people of that. It is popular to believe that everyone in journalism is a sleazebag who has, from childhood, wanted to report on celebrities. Also, there is supposed be a magic revenue fairly who exempts news organizations from economic realities.

[Aggie_Ama]

You will never, ever convince even highly intelligent people of that. It is popular to believe that everyone in journalism is a sleazebag who has, from childhood, wanted to report on celebrities. Also, there is supposed be a magic revenue fairly who exempts news organizations from economic realities.

It is my belief that every journalist had bigger dreams but now are forced with reality of their business. I miss news writing but I know I couldn't do it professionally.