[lbo-talk] Hirohito, TV, & Video Rental Stores (was Re: Fidel)

[Chris Doss]

>
>When Hirohito (the Showa Emperor & war criminal) died in 1989, all the TV 
>stations in Japan went "All Hirohito, All the Time."  A tiny minority of 
>Japanese participated in the media spectacle.  In the mean time, video 
>rental stores did a booming business, with Japanese who got fed up with the 
>saturation coverage of Hirohito flocking to the stores to get something, 
>anything, other than Hirohito to watch.
>--
>Yoshie

The announcement of the death of the Father of the Peoples was met by 
jubilation by about 10% of the population and the overwhelming shock, grief 
and disbelief of the rest. God had died. Heck, I have friends who cried when 
Brezhnev died: "What will we do without the guarantor of peace?"

_________________________________________________________________
Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. 
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail