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News sites manage to stay up during Michael Jackson's memorial service, which brought in record numbers of traffic to both written content and streaming video.

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by ca5ter July 7, 2009 7:15 PM PDT
Twitter is a gauge of stupidity, not internet traffic.
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by MrBoomshadow July 8, 2009 5:47 AM PDT
Why did so many people watch the memorial? Were they hoping he'd pop out of the coffin in a red leather jacket and start singing "Thriller"?
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by man_w_balls July 8, 2009 6:46 AM PDT
The ability for so many people to be in denial about reality at once is baffling. All these people act like Jesus just died again or something... But Michael Jackson was no saint! Remember how he slept with little kids (and probably molested them)? Remember how he turned his skin white and his face into a plastic monstrosity? He was a freak and a pervert. He was a great musician. He was no saint.
Since the memorial was on all the TV channels at once, I happened to catch a few moments of it. It was enough to hear Jesse Jackson saying, "There wasn't anything strange about Mike." Total state of denial.
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by Seaspray0 July 8, 2009 11:30 AM PDT
The news sites stayed up because Michael Jackson's condition hasn't changed... he's still dead.
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