Chandler Suicide Highlights Media Bias Against Jackson

[Catherine Vincent]

http://charlesthomsonjournalist.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 19 November 2009
Chandler Suicide Highlights Media Bias Against Jackson

When it emerged yesterday that two weeks go Evan Chandler, father of Jordan Chandler, shot himself in the head, few tears were shed despite the media's best efforts to eulogise him. Most media outlets are touting Chandler as 'the father of the boy who accused Jackson of child molestation'. Wrong. Chandler was the father who accused Jackson of molesting his son. The initial allegations against Jackson were made not by Jordy Chandler but by his father Evan, in spite of Jordy's insistence that Jackson never touched him inappropriately, a stance that the boy maintained for several months.

Relations between the boy's father and Jackson had soured in early 1993 when Evan asked the popstar to build him a house and Jackson politely declined. A failed screenwriter, Chandler contacted Jackson shortly afterwards and asked him to negotiate three scriptwriting deals on his behalf. If Jackson did not comply, he said, he would accuse him of molesting his son. Jackson didn't comply - and the rest is history.

As revealed by Mary Fischer in her 1994 GQ article 'Was Michael Jackson Framed?' - Jordan Chandler only claimed to have been molested by Jackson after Evan - a dentist by trade - plied him with a mind-bending drug called sodium amytal, which is known to induce false memory syndrome. Even once Jordan Chandler began to toe his father's line, his testimony was so unconvincing that DA Tom Sneddon took his case to three separate grand juries and none of them allowed him to bring charges against Michael Jackson. Contrary to widely reported myth, Jordan Chandler did not accurately describe Jackson's genitals. Among other inaccuracies, he claimed that Jackson was circumcised while police photographs proved that he was not.

Unsurprisingly, none of this information has made its way into the mainstream media's reportage of Evan Chandler's death. Instead, Chandler's suicide is seen as another opportunity to sling mud at Michael Jackson and perpetuate the same, tired old myths about the 1993 allegations - particularly with regard to the settlement. News outlets the world over are once more reporting that in 1994 Jackson paid the Chandlers a settlement. This is total fiction. Court documents from the time state clearly that Jackson's insurance carrier "negotiated and paid the settlement over the protests of Mr Jackson and his personal legal counsel." Jackson didn't even agree with the settlement, let alone pay it.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Media bias, yeah

That giant amusement park was just for fun, right?

I wish the MJ defenders would just face up to the fact that their hero was a perv.

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Fun? Yes. That's what amusement parks are for.

"I wish the MJ defenders would just face up to the fact that their hero was a perv."

That's it... continue labeling MJ a perv. I know you're attempting to justify your own bad behavior. Good therapy.

[customerserviceguy]

6. My bad behavior?

Yeah, I label MJ a perv, and I'm the one "covering up" for bad behavior?

I fought tooth and nail in the courts to get my son away from the child rapist his mother wanted to marry, I know far more about pervs than you ever will, revisionist historian.

[CatWoman]

7. question:

have you read any of the posted excerpts of the article in the OP?

[Catherine Vincent]

8. And you don't know MJ

So kindly stfu calling him a perv.

[On the Road]

11. If You Know a Lot About Pervs,

doesn't Jackson's whole treatment of the accusations seem strange? It doesn't fit the profile of any child molester I've ever heard of.

[customerserviceguy]

12. What else did he ever do that was typical of the way a normal human would act?

He was one messed up individual, but that didn't give him a free pass on messing up other people's kids just because he was "trying to find a lost childhood" or any of the other dozen rationalizations that his defenders use.

Way too much smoke, there has to be a fire in there somewhere.

[greennina]

5. Using your logic...

Disney was the biggest pedophile in the history of man-kind. OK, maybe you're right about that one.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. LOL! Good one!

But anyone that know the real reason MJ built Neverland (movie theatre included) was mainly for himself because he never had a childhood and because he can't go out without being recognized.

[Raster]

2. more info....

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In actuality, Jordan Chandler went to court when he was 16 and gained legal emancipation from both of his parents. When called to appear at Jackson's 2005 trial, he refused to testify against his former friend. Had he taken the stand, Jackson's legal team had a number of witnesses who were prepared to testify that Jordan - who now lives in Long Island under an assumed name - had told them in recent years that he hated his parents for what they made him say in 1993, and that Michael Jackson had never touched him.

<snip>

The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that Evan Chandler masterminded the allegations as a money making scheme, believing it would help him to achieve his dream of working in Hollywood. Tape recorded telephone conversations heard him dismiss the boy's wellbeing as 'irrelevant' and claim that he was out to take Jackson for all he was worth. (Click here for Mary Fischer's GQ article, which contains transcripts of the telephone calls.)

<snip>

As for Jordy Chandler, maybe with his father gone he will find the courage to do the honourable thing. Perhaps he will surface somewhere and tell the world what he's been telling his friends for over a decade now - that Michael Jackson never laid a finger on him. Until then, I suspect he will live with the same torment that it seems eventually claimed his father, suspiciously soon after the demise of the biggest victim in all of this; Michael Jackson.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Yes. Thank you.

Maybe some of the evidence out there will sway some of the MJ haters. They are some stubborn mofos.

[Triana]

10. THANN YOU. I am so SICK of the media treating this dirtbag like HE (or his son) was the "victim"

when Michael Jackson was victimized by HIM. The media, as per usual - when they bother to report a story at all, SLANTS the Hell out of it - in this case (and in most or all cases) against Michael Jackson - regardless of what the facts are - because you know, anything positive or truthful about Jackson doesn't SELL ($$$)

I know someone they once offered $75,000 to - to dish dirt on Michael. They told them POINT BLANK that they DID NOT WANT anything positive about MJ because that doesn't sell. They only wanted DIRT. The person told them they didn't know anything that wasn't positive about Michael and that they wouldn't tell lies about him for money. The media quickly learned not to call on them again because the person kept telling them "NO!"

THAT is how the medialoids operate.

[blonndee]

13. Thanks for posting this! Alas, I knew at least one stupid douche would feel the need

to show his uninformed, ignorant, sheep-like ass in this thread. These people think they're so superior to and unlike the mindless freepers who stubbornly hold on to their beliefs despite every indication and evidence to the contrary. It boggles.