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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Celebs and Artist and other public figures -Tragedy - Private or Public?

Today on twitter I read that TMZ (Trash Media Zone) released the 911 tape of Alia Rose's call for help after finding her mother (Teena Marie) non- responsive on December 26, 2010.  I found this to be and all time low even for "Trash Media". A distraught young woman's call for help is news? Do we really have to know every little detail of a tragedy? Teena Marie is a person who died and horribly her only child discovers her lifeless body. Do we require a power point presentation about what this kind of pain would create? The media has the power to report every little detail of  Tragedy and because they can, they do... and the masses eat it up. The pain and suffering of some one's life is just announced as if it's a new movie release. It's time for us to draw a line... When I learned of Teena Marie's death and the circumstances I felt badly for her daughter. To report that someone has died is news. However to keep digging for more of the tragedy to report to make more money and to boost ratings is Trash not news and surely not journalism. We need need more privacy laws to protect all of us from this sort of thing. Teena  Marie isn't the only famous person who passed recently on even around the same time line but her death is everywhere. This isn't because they cared about Teena Marie instead it's to make money...Teena Marie has been around for at least 30 years and she created wonderful music, she released a new CD in 2009 there wasn't any media coverage.  We have become a society of vultures. I felt bad for Micheal Jackson's body and I was hoping that he was not in that coffin at the staple center. Who are we the so called "fan" that we can't let go...these people share their gifts or talents with us not there entire lives. They have families and they are human and they live the same as we do...It's not our right to intrude because some one created  great music, danced or acted out a role for us. Teena Marie and Micheal Jackson were two of my favorite artist . I didn't know them nor they me, I found a connection to them because of their music. I grieve their deaths and I will miss the new music they might have created, they were not mine. I respect who they are to their families and the right for those families to grieve. I lost someone I loved and cared about more than ten years ago and I still feel the pain of that loss but we are not famous so I was able to grieve in private...America when is enough ...enough? What if it was you or your loved one?