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Celebrity Deaths in Media

CELEBRITY DEATHS IN MEDIA

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On June 25 , 2009 , the day Michael Jackson died , major search engines such as Google and Yahoo reported temporary stalls . This was as a result of the high level of traffic as people allover the world bombarded the internet to either announce the death of the king of pop or seek clarifications in regard to his death . Never before had the internet witnessed such traffic over the death of a celebrity . The furor and frenzy that characterized the immediate

response of the media and the public to Michael 's death however is not a current phenomenon , however it brought to the limelight how media responds and reports celebrity deaths . A look at history reveals that it is full of such sensational reporting of celebrity deaths from the days of Rudolph valentine , Adolph Hitler and Elvis Presley

As many scholars have observed , it is the death of Rudolph valentine that ushered on the era of sensational mourning in America . Valentino Rudolph , who lived between 1825 and 1926 , was a Hollywood sensation whose popularity and fame brought the meaning of the word celebrity to a new level . He remains a key figure in the world of cinema as he was synonymous to fame in the 1920s . As Victoria (259 ) observes , he was widely regarded as one of the handsomest men in the world , and he influenced standards of appearance for men during and after his brief life ' Also known as the `Latin Lover...

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