An event or moment · 2004 · Music
Michael Jackson
Public mourning in a way that produced its own genre of documentary and speculation.
The moment grief for a parasocial figure became a media product, with outlets monetising speculation about the death itself. The line between honouring the dead and selling the death is drawn here, and it is not respected here.
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