Jobs a good 'un?
Celebrity deaths, and more specifically the reactions thereto, are a curious business. The print and broadcast media will necessarily adopt a measured and neutral tone, mostly painting each newly-extinguished life in a positive light in all but the most heinous cases. Meanwhile in the worlds of the internetz and social media, which require no such filters of tact or taste, there are explosions of activity. On my Facebook feed, there will be several "RIP actor X/pop star Y" status updates, to which more obscure names often prompt amusing "whos that then hun?"-style responses. Yesterday I noticed one or two more elaborate ones, "Thanks to Steve Jobs for changing the world" for example, as well a couple of links to inspirational Youtube clips. There is nothing wrong with positivity of course, although I can't help feeling that when some people (and it's always the same people) put up an RIP for every single semi-famous person it's more of a refl...