What is Digg?Sponsored by Dragon Age: Origins
See the new YouTube feature trailer for Dragon Age: Origins view!
youtube.com/DragonAge - EA presents BioWare's new dark fantasy epic Dragon Age: Origins. '9/10' from Game Informer.
240 Comments
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -3/+92Why should we donate?
- TheSkunkMonkey, on 07/09/2009, -5/+92All those rich celebrities at his memorial could have easily donated enough money to cover this. I bet none of them have donated a single dollar. What a colossal waste of money.
- Kapitaine, on 07/09/2009, -2/+79Why didn't the family pay for this event? I'm sorry, but most families DO pay for their memorial services...this is normal.
Whether it's 1.4 Million or $10 the family should have coughed up. Why is this being treated like some kind of public service?? - geoken, on 07/09/2009, -4/+70@solvable
Which leads to the question "Why the ***** would the state pay for the funeral of a celebrity with a rich faminy who has long since left the state to escape constant public ridicule"? - topapito, on 07/09/2009, -3/+66Since when does Michael need donations? I had to cremate my father cause we couldn't afford a burial. $1.4million? Yeah, be right with you!
- cristianbam, on 07/09/2009, -2/+64We shouldn't.
- xcrico, on 07/09/2009, -2/+56Here is the article:
"MJ Memorial Donations -- Next to Nothing
Posted Jul 8th 2009 7:11PM by TMZ Staff
The city of Los Angeles has only received $17,000 of the $1.4 million it cost to put on Michael Jackson's memorial -- but it's not because MJ fans are cheap ... it's because of the complete failure of the official donation website.
The press release from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says, "The city's Information Technology Agency could not handle the high volume of traffic or adequately respond to receive contributions for several hours Tuesday afternoon ... for at least 12 consecutive hours Tuesday evening ... and periodically throughout Wednesday morning."
So Villaraigosa is begging MJ fans to go back to the website and cough up a donation -- but please, not all at once."
It's obvious some of the people above didn't even read the article. - Awwzm, on 07/09/2009, -1/+50Anyone that went to the funeral should donate. It was their party.
- BassMastr, on 07/09/2009, -1/+47I wonder how much money they made off taxes from all the people who came to town to stay in their hotels, eat their food, shop at their stores and rent their cars.
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -1/+43Since they allowed his death to become a freak show spectacle circus, his family should front the bill. Quit putting the burden on taxpayers and everyone else!
- dahatecatalyst, on 07/09/2009, -0/+40Cali spending money they dont have? Nooooooo....
- tk0680, on 07/09/2009, -8/+47Just to throw this in there - could it possibly be that not all of the born-again MJ fans are as devoted as they like to say? Along side other factors, perhaps; I'm just still pissed at how many people think that playing Billie Jean after a lifetime of "eh, he's alright" makes them deep and profound.
- casualgod, on 07/09/2009, -8/+47Why would they need donations...?
- migitalwarfare, on 07/09/2009, -0/+34How about this? If the city couldn't afford to make a spectacle of Michael Jackson's (a private citizen) memorial service, then maybe they shouldn't have done it anyway and then expected someone else to foot the bill. No ***** wonder California is in such a ***** financial position.
Also, if all of these tourists came to the memorial service, and spent all this money in LA on lodging, food, sightseeing and god knows what else, why aren't they using THAT money to cover this ridiculous memorial? Instead, they are expecting these same tourists to turn around and spend MORE money on a private citizen's memorial service? That doesn't sit right. - inactive, on 07/09/2009, -5/+33All wealthy people need assistance. Give till it hurts, especially CEO's.
- algaeturd, on 07/09/2009, -0/+26I agree with the comment above...MJ had a lot of celebrity friends with deep, deep pockets. Many actually participated in that event. Why don't THEY chip in and cover it for their dearly departed friend? Wouldn't that be the right thing to do? I mean, there's a recession going on and everyone has a few hands reaching in their already strapped pockets.
Seems ridiculous to turn to the public...the city of LA should have demanded a percentage of it up front from his rich friends. Dropping 1.4 million when the city is already 400 million in the red seems like more of the same self-defeating policies that have put that city/state in a bind.
I mean, it was a nice event. I didn't go and a lot of those people who did don't have money to help pay for (what was once) one of the richest men in the world's memorial service. Sell off a few Beatles songs' rights back to Paul McCartney and call it a day. - plotoman, on 07/09/2009, -1/+26Why should we donate? I don't understand.
- solvable, on 07/09/2009, -5/+29Because the state is in the red. Have you not been following the news?
- smacksaw, on 07/09/2009, -6/+29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(compu ...
- JayTee44, on 07/09/2009, -16/+37Anyone ever notice how African Americans tend to tip?
Yes I'm bringing up an uncomfortable subject, but...... - ShadowFusion, on 07/09/2009, -0/+21Typical Government spending/planning:
"Anticipating about 250,000 people would converge on downtown streets, the Police Department deployed 3,200 officers starting at 2 a.m. When only about 1,000 fans showed up, police brass let about 1,000 officers go early, slashing the estimated $2.5 million cost to $1 million."
"In a letter to the emergency management department, Greuel criticized the nearly $49,000 expense for police officers' lunches, which were ordered from a restaurant located 80 miles from Los Angeles.
Greuel said her office called a local sandwich shop that could have provided box lunches for less than $17,500. The purchase would have had the added benefit of supporting a local business, she said."
Source: http://www.hollywoodlife.com/Article.aspx?articlep ... - JHB207, on 07/09/2009, -1/+20From what I was hearing on the news most of the MJ "fans" sold all of their families belongings just to be able to make it to the debacle , um I mean funeral.
- purzzzell, on 07/09/2009, -4/+23brings in tourists, which DOES help the economy and DOES = income.
All these people that came for this funeral had to stay somewhere, had to eat somewhere, had to shop somewhere, and, despite the somber reason for their visit, many probably did sightseeing and went to tourist attractions and spent money there as well. - JHB207, on 07/09/2009, -0/+18They should have had a cover charge at the door.
- ShingoEX, on 07/09/2009, -0/+182 words: Record companies
- HardSide, on 07/09/2009, -9/+27Hate to be a race baiter, but when your right your right, why is anybody suprised that Michael Jackson's memorial got almost no donations? Let's be serious, we all know why.
- insomniac247, on 07/09/2009, -0/+17And California wonders why its having financial issues...
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -2/+19why didnt they rent out the center like they would for a concert? Or I can I go to LA and use this place for free too?
- flossdaily, on 07/09/2009, -1/+18Why is the city paying for the memorial in the first place?
- vilago, on 07/09/2009, -0/+17government=inefficient spending
- sullipod, on 07/09/2009, -2/+19i didn't donate because I dont give a *****.
didn't his album soar this week? - syphern, on 07/09/2009, -0/+16Janet earned 1.4 million for popping out her boob back in the day! Redirect the site to OXFAM donations... Michael Would have wanted that!
- irkalla, on 07/09/2009, -1/+16It's not really racist when it's true. =/
- Kapitaine, on 07/09/2009, -0/+14Because people are suckers, stupid and mindless. And they know it.
- Jedidadof2, on 07/09/2009, -3/+16ummm, California is broke.. hit a tab that doesn't say "entertainment news"
- jayll, on 07/09/2009, -0/+13Most of his songs and albums are in the 100 in CD sales and downloads. Something like 47 singles out of 100 are MJ's. That is a lot of money and where the hell is it going.
- xcrico, on 07/09/2009, -0/+12I copied it so you didn't have to click the link...
- bluekangaroo, on 07/09/2009, -1/+13L.A. shot itself in the foot when they told everyone without a ticket not to come near the staples center, and people actually listened... for once.
3000 cops for less than 1000 that showed up without tickets.
If they had accomodated people with outdoor screens etc, maybe people would be more willing to donate. - nonymous666, on 07/09/2009, -1/+13I think his point was that since the "celebrities at his memorial could have easily donated enough money to cover this", there was not even a reason to have a donation page.
- chuckley54494, on 07/09/2009, -6/+18 no one donates to pedophiles
- isxrc, on 07/09/2009, -0/+12Any excuse for a show in Hollywood....when he was alive he was ridiculed and treated like a freak by the media......now everyone is just exploiting his death....you know it's true when P Diddy makes a song to remember.....
His family should pay for the costs...but if not then it should be the record companies who have made money from Jackson since he was a child and will continue to do so when his records become number 1 in the following weeks and months.....but I'm sure that he will be out of pocket in death as he was when he was alive....... - MrZaiko, on 07/09/2009, -0/+12Any donations from the RIAA yet?
- TheMachine1, on 07/09/2009, -3/+14All these peeps that visited the area paid sales taxes.
- tomarocco, on 07/09/2009, -2/+13We love the ocean too much to do that.
- breadfred, on 07/09/2009, -0/+11Sorry, but that was one hell of an ugly boob - even with the christmas decoration. I would give money to unsee that.
- Bloodwine, on 07/09/2009, -6/+16I don't know about African Americans, but my wife used to be waitress and she said that Sunday lunch Christians were the absolute worst tippers. If she got a tip, it was usually a bible verse written on a small piece of paper or something along those lines.
- HardSide, on 07/09/2009, -1/+11It's not racism, considering sharpton and jesse jackson brought this to attention of the community. He is just re-expressing what was already said.
- M4NiC5, on 07/09/2009, -0/+10Right. Maybe they should have kept the whole thing private instead of pumping 1.4 mil into it for complete strangers of MJ that the state will have to pay for.. What a joke.
- uberduger, on 07/09/2009, -1/+11Jordan
- gdenne, on 07/09/2009, -0/+9And yet the world worships celebs? Go figure...
-
Show 51 - 100 of 251 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is