Michael Jackson’s death is fueling financial good times for magazine and book publishers, says a report by Advertising Age: Michael Jackson tributes and book-a-zines have generated $55 million in additional newsstand sales for magazine publishers, providing one bright spot, however somber, amid widespread newsstand declines so far this year. They are of course not the […]
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Michael Jackson: difficult to let go
This screen capture — a Google News summary from Thursday morning, July 2, 2009 — demonstrates that, a mere days after the death of Michael Jackson, people struggle to capture the man’s essence. Perhaps some time, years from now, historians will make sense of the phenomenon: