Public relations. Where truth is obscured for the benefit of the money making from death. Like an Elvis cult, ignoring his perversions or that he died of an overdose while on the toilet, morbidly obese and disgusting waste of a life. But a hero to trash as “their hope”. Utter bullcrap, and ignores his early musical contribution.
Old time WSM performer Alton Delmore wrote an incomplete biopic of his 1920s country music experience on the Opry and elsewhere. Title: “Truth is Stranger that Publicity”.
Kobe and his death and the freaking Church behind the donations and bullcrap... are a current example.
So true.