Jose Antonio Vargas: Michael Jackson Online — A Singular Attraction
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Online, Michael Jackson is a singular attraction. We saw this on June 25, a day that will live forever in online infamy, when the King of Pop’s death literally stopped the Internet. Within a day, Jackson’s main Wikipedia article was viewed more than 6 million times. Twitter and AOL Instant messaging went berserk. Text messages flooded phones. (I, for one, didn’t learn about Jackson’s death from TMZ.com or CNN; a cousin had texted me with “Michael Jackson is dead.”) Which is not at all surp
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Jose Antonio Vargas: Michael Jackson Online — A Singular Attraction