Blog: NPR Music: Monitor Mix

As you know by now, because you read about it or saw it on the TV, because someone sent you a text message, or called you, or because your fellow employees have sent out countless email tributes and are now playing "Ben" over the loudspeaker: Michael Jackson is dead. Those are frightening words to write. They are more scary than any paparazzi photo of Jackson's nose crumbling to pieces, stranger than images of his faceless children wearing shrouds while shopping at the mall, creepier than his skin whitening disease, the burnt hair, the molestation allegations and [...]