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MSNBC Wonders Just How Much More Money Whitney Houston’s Gonna Make Now That She’s, Y’know, Dead

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by Jon Bershad | 4:17 pm, February 14th, 2012

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How dare they? I mean, how daaaaaaaaare they? How dare MSNBC’s Tamron Hall and CNBC’s Julia Boorstin do an entire segment on how much more money Whitney Houston’s catalogue is worth now that she’s gone. The woman just passed away and these vultures want to sit down and talk about money! This is truly just- wait, her estate’s gonna make how much? And Michael Jackson’s family made how much last year? Holy crap. That’s really…wow. But, seriously, how dare they?!

Don’t think we don’t know what you’re doing, Tamron Hall, by talking about how you “can’t believe” you’re reporting this. You’re ashamed because no one wants to hear this. We are human beings and we care about art and legacy, not about massive, massive sums of money!

In fact, I’m so offended at this crass programming that I’m going to put the video right down there below so we can all take a stand and not watch it! Yeah, none of us want to learn about just these interesting statistics, MSNBC, because we’re better than that! We can respect the loss of a true artist. So we’re not going to watch this video. We’re not going to watch any of it.

Don’t watch any of the clip from MSNBC below:

Julia Boorstin, msnbc, Tamron Hall, Whitney Houston

Gloves Doc Donahue

Really might let the poor woman be buried first. Speculate next week, ladies.
12voltman1

Too soon?
Centrist79

Fair question considering they could be like Nancy Grace looking for accomplice, or some of the other people glossing over 15 years of drug and alcohol abuse.
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Based on what Boorstin stated, not much, since Whitney didn’t write most of her songs!!
Anonymous

I hate it when celebrities pass because they get far to much attention in the news… having said that if one can accept the amount of press that her passing will generate then it seems to be a fair question as it only took itunes less than an hour to raise their prices on her music.
Anonymous

They’re trying to outdo the sleaziness of CNN yesterday asking who held her underwater. Of course, MSNBC is sleazy every day, its just usually ignored because their target is a conservative or Fox News.
The Real Royal Emperor

The America media, including the entirety of cable “news” will be at the full disposal of this money-making effort.
Anonymous

Sony will prob be the biggest profiteers!!
Anonymous

Didn’t the money MJ made post-humously get his estate out of bankruptcy?