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Published 7/7/2009 at Movies | The New York Observer

For Time Warner cable subscribers (not to mention anyone with an Internet hookup), there was hardly a shortage of places to watch Michael Jackson's memorial service today in Los Angeles. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc., all blanketed the cable landscape with hours and hours of coverage, chronicling and re-chronicling every nano-angle of the event. None of which particularly surprised us. Considering the widespread interest in MJ and the subsequent ratings boost his... (link)

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