Methinks some here protest too much.

Seems that the self-righteously offended here seem to have overlooked the fact that celebrity gossip being passed off as an OBIT is what offended Shenandoah to begin with...

That can be pretty offensive too, no? Let's not forget, there was a certain amount of agreement with some of what Shenandoah said in the Aaliyah thread.

I just read through the entire thread, and I certainly didn't see any information that I hadn't heard in the last few nights on Entertainment Tonight. In other words, the thread here pretty much *is* mirroring the media frenzy/celeb gossip aspect of the news story. Biographical information of the sort one finds in conventional obits does seem to be lacking in the Mudcat OBIT thread as much as it is in the media.

C'mon...if it really *is* just gossip about a celeb death people are interested in discussing, why not be honest enough with yourselves to admit it? And turn it into a BS thread, which is what it really is anyway.