On Michael Jackson's "Memorial Service"

Dang, y'all. What a circus that was. And at the Staples Center of all places? Every major media outlet was televising/live-blogging/tweeting it. Just ridiculous. And it was a good way to spark the inevitable backlash and shit-talking. Every major news station spent the whole morning having some shmo of a celebrity/news anchor praising the man, and every major news station spent the whole evening waxing philosophical about the appropriateness of the media coverage of the "event." The whole thing was out of hand. Can we just settle on a "miss u, <3 u, don't h8 u" and let the man rest in piece already?