[78-L] Davy Jones dies

[David Lennick]

On 2/29/2012 4:00 PM, Anthony G Pavick wrote:
> At 20:22 29/02/2012, DL wrote:
>> DOESN'T ANYONE DO RESEARCH ANYMORE??????? (It's a rhetorical
>> question and does
>> not need a reply because of course, no one does research anymore).--
>
> It all a part of the 'Clear Channeling' of radio and media. The
> Monkees stuff is over 40 years old and totally outside of the frame
> of reference of the snots in 'media' today. As far as they know, it
> was an animal act. -- take a look at
> http://home.comcast.net/~bubblegumusic/lancelot.htm
>
> T
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The follow-up comment on the list I quoted from reads thus:

--If you think that's bad, check out the video at the Toronto Sun website. It's 
only 30 seconds or so, but if you had no idea who Davy Jones was (and there are 
likely thousands who don't) you'd swear by the amount of video that shows the 
guy on the drums, that it was Dolenz who passed away.

Maybe they don't have access to a lot of video but this is a very poor choice 
to illustrate the story.

Also, the AP story on this - where I'm guessing many of these stations are 
getting their info - has a number of mistakes as of this posting.

They've added an "e" to Micky Dolenz's first name in graph 6, spelled the 
group's name as "The Monkeys" in graph 12, and in graph 3, perpetuate the myth 
that Jones "became the lead singer."

Sloppy work, indeed.  --