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Flawed giant

Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009 4:22 PM by Daily Nightly Editor
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By Brian Williams, Anchor and managing editor

That was the title of Robert Dallek's towering biography of Lyndon Johnson -- but as titles go, it keeps ringing in my head as a way of describing the loss we've been covering, and the life and talent of Michael Jackson.  I thought this was as good a review of his artistry as I've seen today (balanced, maybe a tad passionless) and thanks to Andrew Sullivan's blog, may I suggest this as the best way to remember who Michael Jackson once was.

Our coverage continues tonight. We hope you can join us. 

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For years I have been a very faithful viewer of NBC Nightly News.  Friday evenings broadcast should have been preceded with a notice "This broadcast will contain no news, feel free to look for news on another network".  A very brief mention of a dead child molester would have been quite sufficient.  

Ed Wynne, St. Charles, MO (Sent Monday, June 29, 2009 2:04 PM)

I could really care less one way or the other about Michael Jackson anymore after what he did to those innocent kids !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  We have had more deaths of celebrties the same day as that thing so where is all of the attention on the faces it really belongs on ??????????????  Get over the crazy stuff people for there is a lot more IMPORTANT things to spend all of the money on for your news !!!!!!!!

Cindy Hamilton, St.Louis, Mo. (Sent Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:52 PM)

Enough with the Michael Jackson cudos.  The man was an alleged pedophile. There wasn't this much coverage when the Pope died. I can't change a channel without hearing what a great humanitarian he was. Bull!!!  I'd rather watch Billy Mays pitching on one of his infomercials.

Scott Swaim (Sent Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:30 PM)



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