The Iranian Revolution Didn't Die with Michael JacksonWell, not in Iran it didn't, but it did pretty much everywhere else he was popular. On TV, instead of coverage of Iranian riots and speeches the news now covers stories about the funeral, what will happen to his kids, Joe Jackson still being kind of a creep, and reshowing old, widely seen footage of MJ performances as "lost footage". In the papers, MJ has pushed Iran off the front pages. Even on websites like the Huffington Post Iran used to occupy the banner headline, now Nico Pitney's live-blogging sometimes isn't even on the front page.
So while Jackson didn't die and take the Iranian Revolution with him, he did take most of the coverage of it with him.
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