A 2012 presidential contender has an extramarital affair, bloody revolts in Iran, a military coup in Honduras, Congress considers bills which will fundamentally change health care as we know it, and there's movement on environmental cap-and-trade laws.

Yet:

Fully 93% of cable coverage studied on the Thursday and Friday following his death was about the King of Pop.

Yeah, I "covered" it a lot, too.  But I'm not a 24 hour news channel.

Also, the mainstream media has stupid ringtones: