Throughout his life Michael Jackson has always been the target for much media attention and thus it should be no surprise that his death would be the same. Over the past few weeks we have been bombarded with an abundance of information about the life and untimely demise of Michael Jackson.

Yet, unlike in his youth not only did Jackson have mainstream media conveying their feelings about the situation, but he also had online source discussing the event as well. The day of his memorial services 500,000 Facebook users changed their statues to mirror the events that were occurring during the ceremony. Likewise, from the moment it was announced that Michael Jackson had died of a heart attack people were twittering about it, changing their Facebook statuses and writing blogs about how devastated they were about Jackson’s death.

However, in times such as these we must wonder where our world is headed. Twitter, Facebook and other social media avenues are becoming extremely viable in providing their users with constant up to date and accurate news information. What we must begin asking ourselves is whether or not mainstream news and broadcasting will be necessary anymore i

n a few years or will we simply use social media to receive all our world news and upcoming events.