I love people who go into threads to post about people they pretend not to know. You think they would save the crap for "Snookie has been arrested" threads instead of threads about a person's death.

An immensely talented, beautiful and troubled soul has has its life cut way too short. She also has a child that isn't old enough to legally drink yet.

If you don't care, then take your "clever" musings to another thread. This really isn't all that hard. Makes me wonder if it was one of those hippie musicians from the 60s that so many here moon over if this lack of common courtesy and respect would be tolerated.

I was wondering the same thing!

Being respectful of others, even the ones you don't know, is obviously old fashioned.

Sidenote: Thanks to whoever gave me the heart.

And you are on a political website and probably expect people to take you seriously? Granted that Whitney Houston is a singer, but you would have to be totally clueless as to not to know who she is.

but if you were born in 1991, and are 21 now; you might not. Unless tabloid news and old music is your kick.

It doesn't take a genius to see that "Whitney Houston" is a name and not a what.

I think it is clearly possible to be unfamiliar with her if you are younger. There are many young people, interested in politics, on this website. That is all I am saying.

I have now read her entry in Wikipedia, and can say I'm saddened to hear of such a tragic life and death.

I agree. Plenty of news outlets and they could scroll something.

I can remember how my heart would skip a beat when a program was interrupted, because I knew I was about to hear something terrible. If it happened during a commercial break, however, I knew it would be bad but not terrible. This news definitely falls into the second category.


rocktivity

Clue who she is. commercial break would be better.

they reported it when the news broke, not when it was convenient.

Give me a break.

There are plenty of Whitney love threads you can go on. Or you just trying to feel good being holier than thou. Lmao.

Are those that get so upset that there tv shows are interrupted for news.

she had a lot of personal problems in recent years. but i think if she didn't she would have continued to make music and do well.

I think it was the right decision.

Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unclear.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57376028/singer-whitney-houston-dies-at-48/

very sad.

That would cost them MONEY!


rocktivity

RIP Whitney.

You may not be a fan, but she had many fans all over the world.

I'm sorry if the show you were watching was interrupted.

She was one of the best singers ever to live.

I am sorry that she is now dead

mean to Whitney Houston?

As I said, I'm sorry for the loss her loved ones are suffering; but in real terms, she was a celebrity with little impact on the substantial cause and effect in people's lives.

You interrupt news programs to tell people that a hurricane is coming their way, that the President has been injured... something that has an impact beyond mundane day to day information. IMPORTANT news. Not just news.

the world.

Once such a great beauty with such soaring talent, first lost to drugs, now lost to death.

I hope that she finds peace on the other side.

Personally I think that the only deaths that would merit breaking into scheduled programming to announce are those of current and former US presidents, Popes, and various assorted other people like Queen Elizabeth II, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama, and so on...not Whitney Houston, or Michael Jackson, who while quite famous aren't in the same league at all. But then I'm not running the news division at ABC.

and sad the ugly side that always shows itself in DU during the death of the well known.

Without fail.

this is huge news (for some of us)

It's just a goddamn TV program for fucksakes

and heard ABC break into the program. I stopped because I thought it was something that had actual import beyond entertainment news.


Heads of State. Those deaths affect people in real and substantial ways (think Kim Jong Il or Nelson Mandela) Whitney Houston had a lovely voice.

. . . many folks appreciated her life beyond her entertainment appeal.If you don't get it, you won't get it . . . . and that's just fine. Is there some rule or law or something which dictates when the triviality of television can be interrupted to announce deaths? Particularly the death of someone the medium had already decided was important enough to broadcast while alive . . .

and Bing Crosby and many superstars of an earlier age.

So they broke into your teevee show to announce the tragic passing of the most awarded female performing artist of all time... and that sent you scurrying to DU to complain? Grow up.

Plenty of places to express your grief for a person some really aren't familiar with or frankly are "meh" about. Look around. Join in those and trash this one if it is annoying to you. Not hard to do. Try it.

Interesting.

NBC once broken into regular programming to announce that OJ Simpson had cancelled his upcoming interview with Dateline. That was the worst.

I thought that was more appropriate.

There are other celebrities that would be worthy of them breaking in for, but I don't think she's that relevant anymore. Michael Jackson was break in worthy, maybe Justin Beiber or a celebrity getting assassinated or something? Hmmm, I'm sure it's a fine line for the news director to decide whether to break in or not.

She was a very talented and beautiful woman. Then her story was all about addiction and drugs. So many people were still rooting for her to overcome her problems and sing like she did before. She was part of the American consciousness. I think people cared.