"..the networks should spend as much time documenting proven pedophiles instead of "suspected" ones

[Triana]

Yes. Like how about Roman Polanski?
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SOURCE: http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030220Koop.html

FROM FEBRUARY, 2003

"The Lynching of Michael Jackson"

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"It's not enough for O'Reilly, Walters, Phillips, Mankiewicz, and the others working this celebrity "story" to trump up a case against Jackson. The power of network television has destroyed dozens of others -- only recently another black American superstar and her husband, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. And before that, we saw the virtual demonization of Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte and Paul "Pee Wee Herman" Reubens. And let's not ever forget what they did to President Bill Clinton and his wife.

It was Bill O'Reilly, again, who led the charge against Ms. Houston when she admitted to a drug problem. It is as if O'Reilly is acting as a "special prosecutor" trying to wrest custody of Ms. Houston's children from her. To listen to this phony pseudo-intellectual moralizer one cannot help but wonder how American families would take in another 30 million kids whose parents might light up a joint after a tough day on the construction site.

On just one night earlier this week, television viewers across the nation were treated to four hours (three on ABC and one on NBC) of contemptible "revelations" concerning Michael Jackson's troubles with growing up and his increasing age. Last week FOX Television did a "Special" lynching of Jackson which seemed to whet the appetite of a viewing public with a near-insatiable desire to see the powerful crushed, no matter the expense, no matter the lack of substantiated evidence.

To say these were American networks' sorriest hours would be an understatement. (Charles Thomson has called it "One of the most shameful episodes in journalistic history"): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-thomson/one-of-the-most-shameful_b_610258.html

For three hours, ABC -- The "American" Broadcasting Network, owned largely and ironically by the Disney Corporation who created the Magic Kingdom upon which Mr. Jackson seems to have modeled his "ranch" -- exploited and abused the "King of Pop" so ferociously that one might think it was endeavoring to force the man who won't grow up toward suicide, much as the editorialists as the Wall Street Journal drove Vince Foster to snuff out his own life on a park bench.

On NBC, the "General Electric Network," the Jackson story was likewise presented in as revolting a manner as could be slipped by their increasingly lax "censors", with that network choosing to go nose to nose with ABC in a sordid contest to see who could capture more avaricious and covetous American viewers while torching a pitiable little man who gave us all such great musical pleasure for most of his life.

I don't think I have ever been quite so riveted by a display of insufferable heartlessness.

Many, from the e-mail these programs have generated, did not watch to learn about Jackson, but sought to gloat and rejoice over what at least appeared to be his psychological instability, the terror of his childhood, his loneliness, and his desolation.

All three networks featured ghastly interviews with plastic surgeons studying only photographs of Michael Jackson's face and giving their "expert" opinions on how many surgeries he'd undergone, and how botched they were in a contemptible flaunt of the Hippocratic Oath: "Do no harm."


Martin Bashir

America was treated to hours of Martin Bashir, the British "journalist" who was fortunate enough to "get" Princess Diana to talk about how she cheated on her husband, Prince Charles -- himself "a little odd."

It seems Mr. Bashir is fond of ingratiating himself with the famous, and more so the super wealthy, so that he can use them and abuse them -- and of course, cash in.

Bashir was at his most repellent pretending to take Mr. Jackson into his confidence, feigning concern for the singer, protecting Jackson's children from the paparazzi, and then humiliating him repeatedly -- for nothing more than money.

ABC, in cahoots with REAL Video, is offering up video of the Bashir interview -- the only catch being that you have to subscribe -- again for more money -- in order to wallow in the heartbreak that is Jackson's life.

Dateline, at NBC.com, featured a ghostly Flash Film of Jackson's face morphing eerily using six pictures taken over 30 years of the singing star's life making him appear as a monster to excite its Web surfers.

After all is said, Mr. Bashir -- who seems not to be a journalist at all but merely a pig wallowing in the mud of another's broken life -- and the network executives who participated in this modern Anglo-American lynching should be put in stocks and mocked in Times Square.

Bill O'Reilly would shout me down if I were across from him on "The Factor." He would yell "What about the children, Mr. Koopersmith? What about the children?"

I might answer -- "Yes, what about the children?"

I must add that Barbara Walter's participation in this dreadfulness was deplorable. I thought at least she had reached a zenith, where she like the others could have just said "No!"

Sadly, she chose to participate in this high-tech lynching.

She -- and all the other pilers-on -- should hang their heads in shame."

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My comments re: modern-day LYNCHINGS - They don't use ropes and trees anymore, they use the media to do it. Reference the latest victim, Shirley Sherrod and remember that these tactics were learnt upon the back of Jackson and others before him and that the media outlets - ALL OF THEM have been using them for decades. They've used them on Howard Dean, Al Gore, and others too.

Martin Bashir is now moving from ABC to MSNBC. MORE on this character assassin here: http://www.mj-777.com/?p=4906 & http://www.mj-777.com/?p=4927 - considering both of their backgrounds, it's an apropos move, though all of the lame$tream media sucks and only care about ONE thing: ratings & MONEY - and they will SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ANYBODY to get it. TRUTH isn't even on their priority list. NONE of them.

WHO'S NEXT? DO YOU GET IT YET?

[Sparkle]

1. Great article!

Martin Bashir should be shipped back to England.