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World Service,10 mins

Mourning in public

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The death of Michael Jackson received vast worldwide publicity which has barely diminished since. Attention is now focused on the memorial service due to start in Los Angeles in a few hours time - which 1.6 million people applied to attend. Vincent Dowd asks if the public and the media have become overly obsessed with the deaths of celebrities.

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