Shockingly Bad Taste

I am squeamish in the extreme and hate any television programme involving medical matters. If I had my way, I’d insist on a warning announcement being made before any news segments showing things like folk being given flu injections or having babies, etc.

The Discovery Channel was to have aired a documentary ‘re-enactment’ of the official autopsy on Michael Jackson who died in June 2009 at the age of fifty from a prescription drug overdose. This is obviously not a programme I would have watched. But I was interested to see, however, that the programme has been ‘postponed indefinitely’ because legal proceedings against Jackson's physician commence shortly and also at the request of the late star’s executors.

I have to agree with those who said that such a programme was ‘in shockingly bad taste’, and I wonder why money was spent on making it in the first place.

Perhaps to make a lot of money?
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Earhart Found?

The Discovery Channel have revealed that bone fragments found on Nikumaroro Island, a tiny uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific, may solve the mystery of the what happened to Amelia Earhart who disappeared in July 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.

The tiny bone fragments were found alongside pieces of a pocket knife, pre-war American bottles and makeup from a woman’s compact. The remains of small fires as well as bird and fish bones and empty oyster shells laid in rows as if to catch water were also recovered.

Amelia was last heard from while heading towards tiny Howland island in the south Pacific when her twin-engine Lockheed Electra crashed in the ocean after running out of fuel. Despite an extensive search being carried out, her body and that of her navigator, Fred Noonan, were never found.

The bone fragments are now being examined by scientists at Oklahoma University who hope that they will yield enough DNA to be compared with members of Earhart’s family.

Another mystery solved?
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