An unexpected news source

Duh. Two of my friends who blog have already blogged about Michael Jackson's death. So why not? I'll blog about it as well.

Actually I found out at work, when number 3 told number 2 so. (or was it the other way around? No, I don't think so...)

In the morning when I reach the metro station, I always get accosted by people giving out free newspapers. There are usually three of them...sometimes two. I never take the newspapers because I'm too lazy to read them at home, and I can't read in the metro, the only place where I'd have kinda wanted to read them.

So this morning was no different. I didn't take any newspaper, but when I passed the Lyon Plus (one of the papers) rack, I saw Michael Jackson's face full page on the cover. I did wonder why...but I was walking too quickly to see what the headline was.

I'm posting this just 'cos I found it kinda ironic. Overhearing the bosses at work? It was kinda the last place I'd expect to hear of Michael Jackson's death.

By the way, just the other day I heard two DJs on the radio (Absolute Radio) discussing about how some people race to edit Wikipedia pages when someone dies. One of them said something like "when they go to edit it, they're like 'hey, I'm too late, someone's already edited it!' " And sure enough, I check MJ's Wikipedia page and his life span is already there.

Not that I haven't already noticed this phenomenon before...sometimes I hear that someone famous died and I want to find out why he was so famous, so I go to Wikipedia. And usually his death date is already there. Oh well, I guess there are lots of hardworking people in this world! lol