It would be a bummer to be in Farah Fawcett’s shoes during her final weeks. Every news outlet has already cut together their hour long specials so they’d be ready for the, “Sad news, Farah Fawcett has died today. She was 62,” moment.
Are they all impatiently looking at their watches, tapping their feet and willing her to get on with it?
Some snippets:
“What a sad, incredible … you couldn’t write this,” said a nonplussed Larry King on CNN, describing how his planned show on Fawcett was “blown out of the well” with Jackson’s death. He sensed immediately what most news organizations did, that the Jackson story was bigger, because of both the surprise factor and the magnitude of his stardom.
ABC had planned an hour on Fawcett’s death, a Barbara Walters special that had initially been scheduled for Friday but had been moved up earlier this week when word came that her condition was grave. NBC News, which last month had presented a show on Fawcett’s fight against anal cancer, announced shortly after her death that it would do its own Fawcett special.
