Bob McCarty Writes

Though I haven’t paid much attention to the media circus that has followed the death of Michael Jackson, I couldn’t avoid being exposed to the treatment the story received on the front page of magazines near the checkout at my local supermarket this afternoon.

The photo above offers a glimpse of how four magazines — US Weekly, PEOPLE, iN TOUCH and OK! (shown clockwise from upper left) — exploited the untimely death of the 50-year-old King of Pop on their covers this week.