Mornings with Danny and Laura on 91.5 CKPR

Sad news dominating news yesterday and today...first the passing of Farrah Fawcett at the age of 62, after a long fight with cancer. We remember her from Charlie's Angels, even though she was really on the show for one season, with occasional visits here and there. Then there's the swimsuit poster...Farrah in her red bathing suit...I saw one hanging in one of the sales guys office this morning. Rest In Peace Farrah.

Then came the so very shocking news that Michael Jackson died after suffering cardiac arrest. The reports don't go into detail as to who was with him at the time, or if perhaps he had been on his own before he passed away.

I know there are a lot of people who think this kind of story may not deserve to be the top story with all that's going on in the world these days, but Michael Jackson was part of growing up for a lot of us. His music was tremendous in our lives, and my own son, who is 12 and friends have been fans for some time now.


I got this story off the wire this morning, it's an interesting take on how news spreads in our time....

It was a where-were-you moment in a digital age.Michael Jackson's death was not learned from a T-V news anchor. Instead, the news first spread online like wildfire across newssites, social media networks and Twitter.

The celebrity website T-M-Z (zee)-dot-com site broke the news of Jackson's death late yesterday afternoon. It was a huge scoop for T-M-Z, though many did not believe itsreport until it was matched by more established news organizations. But T-M-Z managing editor Harvey Levin says they wouldn't haveput the story online if they weren't positive.

Jackson dominated the discussion on Twitter, generating the mosttweets per second since Barack Obama was elected U-S president in November.

The tweeting tripped up Twitter briefly, but engineers quicklyresponded to keep the service running.Within a few hours of the news of Jackson's death, his iconic1982 album ``Thriller'' was the Number One album on i-Tunes.(The Associated Press)


Have a fabulous weekend.


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