Michael Jackson STILL dead reports the BBC...and stands by its coverage

More than 700 people complained about the BBC's blanket coverage of Michael Jackson's death, according to The Guardian. I'm really not surprised. By Friday morning it was preposterous but by Sunday it was beyond a joke and was a real black mark against the editorial standards at the BBC, who clearly took the opportunity to lazily programme hours and hours of coverage with little thought to content, relevance or importance.

Despite this, Mary Hockaday, head of the BBC newsroom has understandably defended the excessive output. According to The Guardian:

Hockaday described Jackson as a "huge figure internationally" and said BBC News "went into gear to report a big breaking news story". "We've had a number of complaints about our coverage, the main charge being that we simply did too much: that his death didn't justify the prominence and scale of our reporting through Friday and into the weekend."

Breaking news? By lunchtime Friday the news was well and truly broken. By Saturday it was in a million pieces, scattered all over the media.