The Virtual Union

Seattle WA – The history of popular music is filled with stories of bands and singers leaving at the peak of their fame and success. Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Police, and The Beatles are some of the most famous bands that have closed up shop while still at the height of popularity. Sometimes those departures are due to death, sometimes to tensions between the members. Inevitably though, no matter the cause of the break up, talks of a reunion inevitably start to circulate and generally most bands are more than willing to oblige. Scrape TV

Cupertino, CA – Over the last decade Apple’s increasing power and influence over the electronics marketplace has been unparalleled. Since Steve Jobs’ return to the company he helped created in 1997 Apple has gone from a second rate computer manufacturer to one of the top electronics manufacturers in the world and one of the wealthiest. The continued success of the computer line has been bulwarked by the massively successful iPod and iPhone lines, success that has translated into global mindshare and revenue growth no one ever thought the company was capable of achieving. Scrape TV

Los Angeles, CA – With tributes continuing to pour in for Michael Jackson questions about his life, his death, and his legacy also continue to mount. It is unlikely that the first two topics will ever be covered to full satisfaction but the latter is a different story entirely. Though Jackson hadn’t produced much music in the last fifteen years, and his most influential for more than twenty, his influence and standing in the musical and cultural world are unmatched. With his death now sinking in as a reality fans and the music industry are looking for a successor to his throne, and one man feels he has found it. Scrape TV

Hollywood, CA – Throughout the economic crisis that has gripped the world for the last eight months companies and industries have been forced to reassess their operating procedures. For some that has meant major layoffs, for others it has meant culling their product lines, for others it has been going out of business entirely. Like all industries, Hollywood has had to undergo belt tightening procedures in order to remain fluid and vital through the recession. Now officials have confirmed that the recent spate of celebrity deaths is related to that effort. Scrape TV

Tegucigalpa, Honduras – Awaking to gunfire in his home, Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya was forced in his pyjamas out of the country and onto a plane to Costa Rica. The ouster marked the first move in a military coup against the president which has now installed Roberto Micheletti as the acting president. Initial reports indicate the coup is in response to a referendum by Zelaya to potentially allow him to run for re-election next year. Scrape TV

Tampa, FL – For many people infomercials have often been seen as at best a joke. Hawking products nobody would seem to want to buy and ever more ridiculous ways, the infomercial has become a standard of late night television. That milquetoast and humorous nature has always belied a fierce behind the scenes battle that has raged for decades. From the rise of the format in the 1970’s to the modern day that battle for infomercial dollars has raged and claimed more than a few victims. Scrape TV

Los Angeles, CA – Scrape TV News has just learned that Los Angeles police officials have expanded their investigation into the death of Michael Jackson. The singer’s personal physician, Conrad Murray, has thus far been the primary focus of the investigation but officials haven’t stopped their investigation at his involvement. Though they have yet to officially declare any particular news outlets as suspects in the death, they are reportedly questioning officials from ‘all the usual suspects’ to uncover any possible connection to the death of the singer. Scrape TV

Port Washington, NY – There is nary a person in the world that hasn’t dreamed of striking it rich someday. Since the invention of money people have spent entire lifetimes trying to work a way into instant wealth that would allow them to live their dreams and leave the drudgery of day-to-day life behind forever. From lotteries to get-rich-quick schemes human beings have been on a never ending quest to free themselves of the shackles of money and others have always been at the ready waiting to esploit that desire. Scrape TV

Washington, DC – Death has long been a mystery of enduring interest to the human race. Scientists, theologians, artists, and philosophers have long explored the mysteries of what — if anything– lies beyond the borders of our existence. For many that very exploration has come to define the human experience spawning many of the essential institutions of human society and defining our personal existence on a fundamental level. Despite that importance to our very existence, the fear of death is something that looms over many and even the most positive of people can be struck by the panic that accompanies the end of life. Scrape TV

Los Angeles, CA – Even the word cancer often brings shudders of fear to the most stoic of people. Named for the constellation, the first clear diagnosis of the disease happened over 1800 years by the godfather of medicine, Galen of Pergamum. It was Galen who first bestowed the name to the disease who noted a physical similarity between some tumours and crabs which has now become the boogeyman haunting everyone who fears death. Since Galen’s bestowing of that heavenly the term itself has become synonymous with death and now it’s beginning to stalk even the most successful. Scrape TV