Dear Grauniad...

Now I no longer feel guilty about not buying your print edition.

Why?

I was catching up with you lovely readers' editor and discovered how much space had been wasted ondevoted to (let's be charitable, shall we?) a certain Mr Jackson's demise:

"The front and following four pages of the fifth and final edition were completely devoted to news that the singer had died; his obituary also made it into that issue."

This was followed by the Saturday edition (which I did buy, albeit unwillingly as I didn't want to skip that much of the paper):

"Saturday's Guardian was decidedly Jacksontastic. As well as another front page, followed by four more pages of news taken up, almost entirely, with stories about the pop star there was a leader, a comment piece and the obituary from Friday's paper - repeated for the benefit of readers who got early editions the previous day. Then there was an eight-page pull-out, which included some serious analysis and comment about Jackson's cultural influence, and a step-by-step guide to his moonwalk."

I shall stick to selective reading of the online version and feeds.