Is the collective news media focusing too much on Michael Jackson's death?

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Celebrate/Mourn Michael, but move on! The news media and entertainment outlets are dedicating entirely too much time to Michael Jackson's death. This may end up being the best known personality who's death they ever cover, but the world goes on and there is so much going on right now. Last night the amount of attention paid to autopsy results that really didn't show anything (non-news in other words) dominated almost everybody's nightly news. I'll bet we get daily reminders that toxicology reports will take 4-6 weeks. Meanwhile, we are being distracted from current events that will affect us far more than emotionally: The struggles of the people of Iran, the threats of North Korea, a major health care package in Congress, the sentencing of one of the biggest con men of all time, economic reports from housing and retail sectors, H1N1 and Bacterial Meningitis updates, US voting fraud allegations, the on-going Isreal-Palestine dilemna and hundreds of other stories that affect us closer to home. I will miss Michael. But is it right to let his death distract us?