(that's it - my sole contribution to the Michael Jackson Death Festival. Bye.)

Picking on an 11 year old girl now? Posting a close-up of her pained face, and a video so that you can all gawk at her like a circus freak, with all you moral superiority? And you wonder why Jackson turned out the way he did??

You make me sick. Remove the damn picture.

I don't know why I clicked to read this, but could you please stop. Let go. He was her father. A black man with white kids? It is too much for some people to stand. People do not make as much of a deal about white men with Chinese kids or black kids. It might not be about the kids; it might be about you. Before anybody accuses me of imputing deep dark motives to Judy, they should reflect that she just did the same to the child and her family. Let it rest.

is nothing new. With Michael dead they're now free to exploit his kids as well (something that, maladjusted as he was, he went to extremes to avoid). It's sick and sad that they would use her grief for their own purposes.

That said, you're playing right into their greasy hands with this piece.

Everyone grieves in their own way. Who are you to judge. Showpeople usually express themselves through music dance whatever. Paying tribute to the best in a person is what most memorials are about.

What is very creepy about the Jackson Memorial is the media's notion that it was a "show" to be reviewed. Gross. I work in the entertainment business. Rarely have I attended a funeral where music, dance, "readings" were not part of the proceedings. What ever evokes the highest spirit of the deceased is pursued.

Probably a group therapy session dealing with the complexities and short comings of the deceased is not in order. Michael Jackson is no exception. The dross will pass away the good will last forever for all of us.

Excuse the family if they chose to glorify the good in Michael Jackson instead of villifying him for the gratification of the press and his critics.

This article was gross, insensitive and exploitative. If that little girl wanted to stand up for her dad ,whom she loved...God Bless her. If you are worried about "exploitation" take down this article and the video contained herein.

Gee I'm quite lost for words. I watched the service with nobody else around - well apart from my three cats. I saw only a little girl who loved her dad.

Many of us have parents who aren't at all what the parenting manuals say they should be - hell's bells many of us grew up before the word 'parenting' even existed. Your dad's your dad. If you've ever had to stand there in front of his coffin & say goodbye then you just know it's pure agony. There is nothing else as painful it's as simple as that.

I see no conspiracy at all in this - i see only a little girl saying goodbye. My greatest hope for those young children is that they can all grown up to be doctors, teachers, nurses - anything but anything that doesn't involve entertainment. But that moment was purely a little girl being a little girl & I believe simply wanting to say a couple of words herself. Surely it's easy to remember that feeling as a child - feeling she should make a contribution out of love & respect for her dad.

Judy Berman is not the only blogger asking if the Paris Jackson moment was exploitation, so those of you who are hating on Berman need to save some of your anger for the others who dared to ask the question, I guess.

People speak highly about the departed. That is what people do at a funeral. Why should the Jackson family be any different?

I saw her tug on her aunt's arm and seemingly ask to speak. It seemed spontaneous and perhaps an outgrowth of all the negative comments heard by them over the past week. It seemed natural and unfeigned.

...I have a right to say that I wish that she would shut up.

I didn't watch the memorial. I did see the clip leading up to Paris Jackson's heartfelt words about her daddy. That wasn't exploitation. That was a daughter's heartfelt grief at the loss of her daddy.

Ms. Berman, I don't know why you felt compelled to write this entry. Whatever your reasons, I feel compelled to tell you that the next time you find yourself similarly compelled, you ought to shut down your computer, get away from the internet and reconsider...which is a nicer way of telling you that right to write or not, you ought to shut up.

Yesterday, it was Koppelman and Walsh, today it's Berman, and one has to wonder what it is about Salon writers that make them so hostile to Michael Jackson and his family? It's all about your ambivalence, your reservations, your supposedly profound insights, most of which I would politely ignore in the papers of the undergraduates in my social psychology course. I just find it very strange that Salon writers, most of whom seem so savvy on all matters of things, become such vicious, shallow, mean-spirited, arm chair psychiatrists when approaching the Michael Jackson and his family.

Something is amiss at Salon; this cannot be all about the Jacksons.

Judy Berman is not the only blogger asking if the Paris Jackson moment was exploitation, so those of you who are hating on Berman need to save some of your anger for the others who dared to ask the question, I guess.

Berman chose to ask the question here. Where else do you propose we respond?

It is instructive that despite about a 9-to-1 ration of letters questioning her decision to write this piece or her point of view, Berman has chosen not to weigh in. Makes one wonder if she is madly trying to find something else to write about to clear the palate.

And thank you for finally taking down that picture.