Responding to this post: “Every show in primetime on CNN monday night led with the Michael Jackson story,” an e-mailer notes. “360 devoted approximately 20 minutes with various guests and package pieces; PZN also led with it and gave it much more airtime than Newsnight and, of course, LKL devoted the entire hour to it. None of this programming was done without the ‘express direction’ of Jon Klein.” And: “Jacko is real news compared with Peterson because he is extra-famous,” an anonymous CNN staffer writes, “although we do love the freak show nature of it all. King of pop on trial is totally different from cheating fertilizer salesman on trial.”
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