Wasblind said:
"How can the WTS in Brooklyn not know what's in the news ????"
That's an easy one to explain: they're so busy watching the news for any bad stuff the WORLD is engaging in (to add to their "Watching The World" column) that it's easy to miss the news reports that would be great for a "Watching the JWs" column. Besides that, MJ is dead now, so it's ok to celebrate his birfday. It's not like the attention might go to his head, and give him a swollen ego (which might also rule out someone who had BILLIONS of screaming fans from ever performing again, once they became a JW).