Jul 20, 2009

Larry King: still blathering about Michael Jackson

A Chicago Tribune article at the link below is titled, Larry King’s addiction: Michael Jackson.

Three weeks after the King of Pop's death, other media outlets have largely moved on, while the CNN host has devoted much of his programming to Jackson. Even guest Mark Geragos seems exasperated.

The King of Talk can't stop blathering about the King of Pop. It's been building for three weeks now, getting more and more absurd.

Night after night, the CNN host tosses out sentence-fragment questions ("Brain not returned to the family . . . right, Carlos?") that seem like they should have been written for Jimmy Kimmel.

Night after night, the "experts" lob back speculation, piled on theory, heaped on postulation.

It has been three weeks since Michael Jackson’s death and the media has mostly gone silent on the subject - with two notable exceptions: the checkout counter gossip pulps such as National Enquirer and Larry King (pictured) on CNN.

From the article:

The gravel-voiced, ever-game host acknowledged in one of his occasional moments of clarity this week: "We don't know any facts yet. . . . All of these are assumptions."

That was just before King's panel of judges and lawyers launched into yet another round of speculation, King urging: "What do we know? What do we know now?"

Is King that desperate for material? Is King’s Jackson adulation that strong? Is Larry King getting a bit senile? Maybe the answer is all of the above.

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