If I was God, here’s what I’d do now. I’d force all the rolling networks to cover nothing but the death of Michael Jackson, 24 hours a day, for the next seven years. Glue up the studio doors and keep everyone inside, endlessly “reporting” it, until they start going mad and developing their own language – not just verbal, but visual. And I’d encourage viewers to place bets on which anchor would be the first to physically end it all live on air. And while that was happening, I’d create some other stations that covered other stuff. Current affairs type stuff. I think I’d call them “news channels”. They might catch on.
