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    Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?

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    Image of whatnottowear whatnottowear
    07/02/09

    In reply to Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?
    for the au courant impaired, like myself, is this a reference to twittering about mj's funeral plans? or is ashton kutcher somehow involved in this mess without me noticing it?
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    07/02/09

    @whatnottowear: Think punked.
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    Image of Mosesnoses Mosesnoses
    07/02/09

    In reply to Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?
    This is actually quite hilarious. Matt is walking around an empty house, going from room to room and describing it as, "This room used to have chairs and sofas and rugs." Then he opens the door to an empty closet and says, completely straight-faced, "This used to have clothes in it."
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    07/02/09

    @Mosesnoses: and then he gestured to himself and said "this person's career used to have a point to it.."
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    07/02/09

    In reply to Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?
    When does the "Dancing on his Grave" contest start?
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    07/02/09

    @Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: For the malicious and the mostly uninformed, this has already started.
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    Image of The One The One
    07/02/09

    In reply to Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?
    Didn't he look like a corpse for the last few years anyway?
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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    07/02/09

    In reply to Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?
    The Jacksons are officially the creepiest family ever. What type of respect is it to have an open casket for the public when the guy spent most of his life with his face covered in masks?
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    07/02/09

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives:
    I understand there are plans to put him in a glass coffin. When are they casting for the seven dwarfs?
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    Image of Sneeze In Bed Sneeze In Bed
    07/02/09

    @rudi_freude: [little boy joke]
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/02/09

    @rudi_freude:

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    Image of robotwaste robotwaste
    07/02/09

    @Queen of the Passive Aggressives: Honestly I was kind of hoping they would go the Lenin's Tomb route and take him on tour. Doesn't he already own a sleep chamber that could preserve him?
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    07/02/09

    @robotwaste:
    If Papa Joe gets his way, I have no doubt that corpse will see more traveling than Eva Peron's.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    07/02/09

    @rudi_freude: That's so horrible I refuse to think about it. Even though it's probably true.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    07/02/09

    In reply to Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?
    Oh who cares anymore? Let's just steal his body, take it to the desert, and light it on fire.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    07/02/09

    @airvault: Yes. I'll get the car.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    07/02/09

    @Tart of Darkness: Hey, I know the best places in Joshua Tree...
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    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    07/02/09

    In reply to Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?
    He didn't own Neverland anymore at the time of his death, did he?
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/02/09

    @katekate is squared:


    I think I read that he owned it sort of halfsies in a joint venture.

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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/30/09

    In reply to LA Times: 'What If TMZ Got Michael Jackson's Death Wrong?'
    Also, I'm assuming that TMZ pays its sources off, since it's not confined by normal journalistic standards. That would definitely give them an edge. A slimy, slimy edge.
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    Image of rhys1882 rhys1882
    06/30/09

    In reply to LA Times: 'What If TMZ Got Michael Jackson's Death Wrong?'
    The reality is that no one would care if TMZ was wrong. Every source I found was saying "TMZ is reporting Jackson is dead," which was obviously a big fat disclaimer for anyone who knows who TMZ is.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    06/30/09

    @rhys1882: That's what I heard, too. And the second place I saw "He's dead" with no hedging was at the local TV website KTLA. CNN waited for the L.A. Times for no reason I can fathom.
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    Image of ethylic ethylic
    06/30/09

    In reply to LA Times: 'What If TMZ Got Michael Jackson's Death Wrong?'
    The TMZ time stamp is 5:20. MJ was pronounced dead at 2:26 (5:26 ET). So he was reported dead before he was pronounced dead, although he probably was dead and TMZ guessed or got it from a source before the official report. Pretty morbid anyway.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    06/30/09

    @ethylic: The EMT's have been quoted saying that he was cold to the touch when they got there - and they wanted to pronounce him dead then (this would have been 2:30pm EST), and Murray made them continue CPR and take him to the hospital. So my thinking is the EMT's spilled - he was dead at the scene, and whenever it was "called" at the hospital is kinda not the story.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    06/30/09

    In reply to LA Times: 'What If TMZ Got Michael Jackson's Death Wrong?'
    Also, it is very likely TMZ had a cofirmation from inside. An EMT or someone in the ER, who knows.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    06/30/09

    @PandoraSpocks: I can't spell this early.
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    Image of T.A.N. T.A.N.
    06/30/09

    In reply to LA Times: 'What If TMZ Got Michael Jackson's Death Wrong?'
    this may be a little old fogieish, but might this be the story that actually creates separation between the "old" and "new" media sets?


    tmz has a distinguished resume, of course (they're even on the tv box!), but for the world at-large that finds out about twitter via Time magazine cover stories, doesn't the subject and international resonance of the story, plus their being so clearly and definitively out in front of the pack, get anyone on the fence off and into the backyard of tmz (or the new media site of their choosing)?


    or maybe if you're still on the fence it wouldn't matter if they scooped the apocalypse, you're gonna shake god's hands with ink on your hands, dammit!

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    Image of T.A.N. T.A.N.
    06/30/09

    @T.A.N.: yes, how old fogie indeed. as i now see after following the "link" that's exactly what's being discussed by the "commenters" on that "website".


    well, back to my marbles and skelly-caps.

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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    06/30/09

    @T.A.N.: Hmm...Interesting thoughts, though I'm not sure anyone really wants to work at TMZ. Oh wait, is that where Richard L. is going?

    You are an excellent writer BTW...
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    06/30/09

    In reply to LA Times: 'What If TMZ Got Michael Jackson's Death Wrong?'
    Tabloidbaby made a good point - TMZ may have just made a well-educated guess and rolled with it. Not, (says a blogger who has made a career out of such things), that there is anything wrong with that.
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    06/30/09

    @RandomLunatic: I've thought the same thing. But Levin is reportedly very well-sourced in the LA area hospitals. He's got people on lockdown, so I wouldn't doubt if he heard it from someone on the inside.
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    Image of MadamButterfloozy MadamButterfloozy
    06/30/09

    In reply to LA Times: 'What If TMZ Got Michael Jackson's Death Wrong?'
    Does anybody apart from the media and people in related industries really care who broke the story? It's just all too stupid for words.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/30/09

    @MadamButterfloozy: Gawker used to be a Manhattan media blog back when it had actual standards for commenters, so I'd guess that a lot of us here care. I do, for one.
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    Image of Lazy Susan Lazy Susan
    06/30/09

    In reply to Desmond's $500K Gamble: OK! Goes for Broke with Macabre Michael Jackson Death Photo
    Admit it - we're all waiting for the photo without makeup!
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    Image of jorel845 jorel845
    06/30/09

    @Lazy Susan: Personally, I'm waiting for one sans wig. But that's just my morid tastes.
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    Image of Lazy Susan Lazy Susan
    06/30/09

    @jorel845: ...or without nose!
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