As with hugely talented people, the rest of society relishes in making a spectacle of them and then they die and everyone goes "shit what a loss"
This perfectly sums up the media's response:
From John Campbell
I pondered how long it would be until I heard the first joke about it, it was 7 hours, 32 minutes and 15 seconds:
Early reports are undecided whether to blame MJs death on the sunshine, the moonlight or the good times...