It's required grade school reading for a helluvalot of the western world and even where it isn't everyone knows the gist of her story - the proof is in the pudding - thus the worldwide furor
I wasn't aware it was a required reading in any school but required books tend to be quite resented by students...
And the worldwide furor has more to do with anti-bieber sentiment than anything.
You seem to know her thoughts quite well. Were you two very close?
She was a teen, find me a teen that would be offended because a pop star said he hope she would have been a fan.
Beside, she's dead and thus don't care anymore.
I'm not disputing it was not very clever to write that but it's one of the least important piece of news to ever be written.
And I'm pretty sure it's not the dumbest thing written in the guestbook.