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#481 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 904 weeks ago
La Toya Races to Her Brother's Side
Posted Jun 25th 2009 6:45PM by TMZ Staff
La Toya Jackson was in tears as she ran inside the UCLA Medical Center to be with her brother. Sadly, Michael Jackson had already died.
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One conspiracy theory down. Unless that is actually Michael after faking his death. 
#483 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 904 weeks ago
I'm a little bit late on this, but I just heard the 911 call. If the doc that was with him was trying to do cpr, why was the body on the bed? I mean come on, I've been certified in CPR since I was 16 and anyone who's even remotely affiliated with First Aid / Red Cross of any kind knows they must be on a flat hard surface.
#484 Re: The Sunset Strip » What's Your Favorite Songs By Michael Jackson? » 904 weeks ago
1. they don't really care about us
2. black or white
3. smooth criminal
4. scream
5. beat it
#485 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 904 weeks ago
He had no reason to fake his death.
I disagree, the conspiracies will write themselves.
-He faked his death to get away from the media
-He fakes his death to get away from his debt
-He faked his death to get away from the child molestation accusations
-He faked his death so that he could see how the media / world would react to him dying.
-He faked his death so that he could concentrate on his alter ego La Toya
Whenever anyone sees La Toya in public guess what thats going to be...Yep a Michael Jackson sighting.
#486 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 904 weeks ago
At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, "I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did."
Has Latoya been spotted since MJ's death? If not, maybe the rumor was true after all....
His death is going to be just like Elvis'. The conspiracy theories are going to be great. I can imagine it now...
#487 Re: The Sunset Strip » Farrah Fawcett, sex symbol and actress, dies » 904 weeks ago
Okay so this is really wrong, but I saw someone said it on another board and it made me laugh.
"Farrah Fawcett died today, I guess even cancer wanted that ass"
#488 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 904 weeks ago
My favorite video...if only for the Janet Jackson boob grab part.
#489 Re: The Sunset Strip » Favorite Michael Jackson album » 904 weeks ago
Dangerous...that was the first album of his I ever heard. Then to find out later that Slash was on it was just a bonus.
#490 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 904 weeks ago
News of Jackson's death first spread online
Many did not believe news until announced by established organizations
By Jake Coyle
The Associated Press
updated 11:43 a.m. ET, Fri., June 26, 2009
NEW YORK - It was a where-were-you moment in a digital age. Michael Jackson's death was not learned from a fatherly TV news anchor. Instead, the news first spread online.
Some of the initial reports from various outlets were confusing: Was Jackson still alive? Was he in a coma? They spread like wildfire across news sites, social media networks and Twitter.
The celebrity Web site TMZ.com. site broke the news of Jackson's death at 5:20 p.m. Thursday.
It was a huge scoop for the AOL-owned TMZ, though many did not believe TMZ's report until it was matched by more established news organizations.
"Everything starts with a tip," said Harvey Levin, managing editor of TMZ. "We wouldn't have put it up if we weren't positive."
Jackson's death was confirmed by the Los Angeles Times and then The Associated Press just minutes before the nightly network news began. The anchors relayed the news at the top of their broadcasts, though CBS and ABC quickly moved on to their prepared obituaries for Farrah Fawcett, who died earlier Thursday.
MTV, the channel that had so much to do with Jackson's incredible rise to fame, played Jackson's iconic music videos "Beat It" and "Thriller," and continued with a Jackson marathon.
Jackson dominated the discussion on Twitter, generating the most tweets per second since Barack Obama was elected president in November.
"We saw over twice the normal tweets per second the moment the story broke as people shared their grief and memories," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an e-mail.
The tweeting tripped up Twitter briefly, but engineers quickly responded to keep the service running. At times Thursday night, Jackson-related search topics were the most popular on the site.
Celebrity users on Twitter — including Lindsay Lohan, Ashton Kutcher, John Mayer, Ryan Seacrest and ?uestlove of the Roots — posted their remembrances.
"I will be mourning my friend, brother, mentor and inspiration," tweeted MC Hammer. "He gave me and my family hope. I would never have been me without him."
Comedian Rob Corddry, the former "Daily Show" correspondent, joked: "I wish it had been Michael Jackson that broke the story of TMZ dying."
Others sought to corrupt the memorializing of Jackson. A false rumor was spread that actor Jeff Goldblum had died. His publicist had to release a statement saying that Goldblum was fine.
Blogger Perez Hilton also caused a stir when he initially doubted that Jackson had gone into cardiac arrest. In a post since removed from PerezHilton.com, the blogger speculated that Jackson was pulling a stunt. (Hilton didn't immediately return an e-mail requesting comment late Thursday.)
Akamai's Net Usage Index, which monitors global news consumption online, found that Web traffic to news sites increased by about 50 percent, peaking around 6:30 p.m.
So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson's death that the computers running Google's news section interpreted the fusillade of "Michael Jackson" requests as an automated attack from about 5:40 p.m. through 6:15 p.m.
As a defense mechanism, Google's news section responded to requests for information about Michael Jackson with squiggly letters known as a "captcha." Just as online ticket buyers regularly do to complete their purchases, the Michael Jackson searchers had to enter the letters correctly to see Google's new results.
Searches made through Google's main search engine were unaffected, according to company spokesman Gabriel Stricker.
On the Google Inc.-owned YouTube, traffic flowed to music videos of Jackson, while thousands posted videos of themselves sharing their thoughts on Jackson.
Others were using Facebook to organize vigils and celebrations of Jackson. One in San Francisco with nearly 50 confirmed guests hoped to recreated the "Thriller" dance.
Within a few hours of the news of Jackson's death, his 1982 album "Thriller" was the No. 1 album on iTunes. Several of his discs were also in the top 10 of the digital store.
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