For its new Question of the Day feature over at Editor & Publisher's main blog, we asked: Is the press overplaying the death of Michael Jackson? The question produced a good number of responses, even as the coverage -- right or wrong -- continued with little let up. Nearly all hit the over-coverage hard.
Commenters mainly stuck to the extent of coverage, not the blatant misinformation and hyperbole, such as comparing Jackson to Jackie Robinson (MTV: partly segregated for one...
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