OK! Magazine Tribute Issue - THE SICKEST Magazine Cover Ever?

[TheMagicTramp]

Warning - Graphic Imagery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a68rwDaP6mY

I didn't think you could go lower than the Jade Goody tribute issue, before she had died. But this is truly sickening.

I'm degraced in OK! Magazine right now :@ (This is officialy true)
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[GoldenMerc]

Hows that sick?

[TheMagicTramp]

It just is so sick that will just fly of the supermarket shelves so fast in huge numbers... but who will buy a dead person on a magazine that will just put me of straight away. Don't ask a stupid question like that again

PS; http://www.michaeljacksonsightings.com/

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[LuketheDuke]

Ew, wth is the point in publishing such photos!!!

In all this MJ coverage recently the thing thats becoming obvious is the British Media know no shame when it comes to dealing with such morbid issues.

The Sun also went at lengths to get hold of Jacksons post mortum results before anybody else and drew their own conclusions of a possible 'murder/suicide' before anybody else indicating a lack of decency and undermining the efforts of the LAPD and of the UCLA general hospital in finding how exactly he died. :@

[Robbie]

It just is so sick that will just fly of the supermarket shelves so fast in huge numbers... but who will buy a dead person on a magazine that will just put me of straight away. Don't ask a stupid question like that again

PS; http://www.michaeljacksonsightings.com/

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LOL I wondered how long it would take.

[Wootzeh]

How is this worse than the Jade Goody issue?

[MJJ]

It's meant to be a commemorative issue of OK! magazine for Michael - you'd think a good picture would be more appropriate than that picture.

Something of him doing his stuff onstage would be FAR more appropriate than him lying dead on a stretcher. No-one wants that to be a lasting image of him.

I just had to laugh at this though. Something a fan posted on a MJ fansite:


I went into my newsagents and they have 10 copies of this mag

So @ work i printed some sticky labels

They said ' SHOW MICHAEL SOME RESPECT'

I printed them and went back after work and stuck them on the front cover over the pic

[TheMagicTramp]

How is this worse than the Jade Goody issue?

LOL :rolleyes: well... OK! didn't show dead images of Jade but did for Jackson so therefore it has to be the worst OK! Magazine Issue hasn't it obviously?

[GommeInc]

I didn't think he was dead then? I thought he was in a drug-induced coma? If he was dead, they would remove the breathing apparatus...

I don't like OK!, if that's the magazine that humps Katie Price's leg wherever she goes. Why can't they do what the world wants and push off a cliff with sharp rocks at the bottom?

Anyway, to the point... It's not really that bad, it's not vile at all... Although OK! have messed up big time before, publishing Jade Goody as dead when she was alive for a few more days (I believe).

[MJJ]

I didn't think he was dead then? I thought he was in a drug-induced coma? If he was dead, they would remove the breathing apparatus...

Apparently he was already dead in that picture, but they kept trying for an hour.

I don't really think that picture is too bad either.. he looks peaceful in it. (if you forget all the tubes around him)

[Caution]

Don't look at it then. By the way, "degraced" is not a word.

[GoldenMerc]

http://www.thelondonpaper.com/thelondonpaper/celebrity/celeb-news/last-michael-jackson-picture-on-ok-cover

[GommeInc]

Ah I see, the way I read it he was in what could be described as a coma, where the brain has literally gone to mush and but the rest of the body is doing something.

I do agree with you though, he looks peaceful, it's not at all disturbing :/ The article HG(something something) posted to The London Paper does sum up the picture, quite well surprisingly...

[Jordy]

I agree that it's not exactly the best photo of him, it's not sick but I'm sure people including his fans would rather not see that photo it doesn't do anyone any favours?

I think it was slightly sick how they released the jade goody tribute issue before she was dead though.

[GoldenMerc]

maybe she wanted to see it ?

[GommeInc]

maybe she wanted to see it ?
Surely if she wanted to see it, OK! wouldn't of published it and released it in the shops as their weekly magazine? They would of printed off a copy for her, or only the bits mentioning her name :P

[GrandTheftAudio]

Hardly. You could put a picture of him with a kid next to him on it. That would be sick :lol: . OK! is usually crap, seems that issue is no different.

[myke]

I don't really see a big problem with it - sure it's not nice but it's what the media do. They're using shock tactics to get you to buy the magazine. If you had the choice of either a magazine with that picture or a magazine with a picture of him in Thriller on the front... which would you pick. Most people would probably pick the OK! magazine simply because it seems "juicier".

It could've been worse. They could've shown him in the mortuary but they haven't, so they've still shown respect ... Well. That's the way I see it. It depends on the person buying it.

[xPrecedent]

@OP, are you GeneralMental on DigitalSpy forums or just copied the post directly from there?

[Teabags]

It just is so sick that will just fly of the supermarket shelves so fast in huge numbers... but who will buy a dead person on a magazine that will just put me of straight away. Don't ask a stupid question like that again

PS; http://www.michaeljacksonsightings.com/

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He wasn't a dead person to some. He lives on in everyone. It isn't sick. People will buy the magazine because they want to be able to greive his death before acceptance?