Michael Jackson Statement Analysis Jude Calvert-Toulmin on the passing of Michael Jackson Topix - open discussion on Michael Jackson allowed Michael Jackson did not love animals Bill Wyman, in The Wall Street Journal, on Michael JacksonRecommended Links
"Somehow or other Jackson convinced himself -- and seemingly, his family and partisans -- that he wasn't a powerful musical superstar. He was instead a victim of some mysterious stew of health maladies, public persecution, and secret sadnesses that, we were to understand, made this frail man-child shiver with fear. The reality is different."
Bob Herbert - Behind The Facade New York Times, July 3, 2009
Jonah Goldberg - Some Quick Thoughts on Michael Jackson National Review Online, June 26, 2009
Beyond the Pale ... Mark Steyn on Jacko Steyn Online, June 26, 2009
Andrew Breitbart - A Monster of Our Own Making Is Dead Big Hollywood, June 26, 2009
"Why did Michael Jackson bring back the gay porno producer to use a video camera to oversee kid trips to Neverland AFTER it was admitted by Jackson's own people the Jackson/Schaffel alliance was blatantly improper?"
For further research - Those fingerprints on that magazine Jackson trial: Week four; A day-by-day account of the Michael Jackson trial, with all the key evidence, quotes and witnesses
Nina's Garden - Celebs and Sex Crimes Comparing Michael Jackson and Roman Polanski
"It is irrational to accept that [Jackson,] an abused child would grow up to be an adult who constantly seeks to invent childhood. Polanski, who's pregnant wife was murdered a few years before the incident is not given any sort of victim of trauma pass."
Evil Sits at the Dinner Table A childhood abuse survivor on Michael Jackson's death.
"The trial continued for sixty-six days, and each of those days Mr. Jackson arrived at the California courthouse surrounded by supportive family members, an entourage of body-guards, spokespeople, and even a man who held Mr. Jackson’s umbrella for him. I quickly saw the umbrella as a symbol of the many families who give an umbrella of protection to the father, mother, brother, uncle, or grandparent who has violated a child."
Evil Sits at the Dinner Table Michael Jackson: Declared Not Guilty by a Spineless Jury
"The jurors in the Jackson case seemed to convince themselves that everyone was lying except Mr. Jackson - who spoke only in his own defense through a video tape of himself with complimentary lighting, mood music, and the freedom to tell the world that he "loves" children - all without being cross examined about this special kind of "love.""
Michael Jackson's Black or White Blues Michael Jackson's ''Black or White'' -- How the 11-minute video caused controversy and got a lot of publicity - November 29, 1991
"...there's no question that in spite of a four-year absence from record stores, Michael Jackson knows how to reenter the public consciousness with a vengeance. This time he did it with a video whose last four minutes show him dancing, smashing the windows of a car, tossing a garbage can through a storefront, and simulating masturbation"...
Can he beat it? Michael Jackson stages his comeback -- Can ''HIStory, Past, Present, & Future - Book I'' help the pop star overcome his problems? - June 16, 1995
We know now that nothing helped Jackson after he trashed his reputation with the mainstream public.
The other side of the coin
(or... people who think it's OK for grown men to sleep with unrelated children):Further Reading
Maureen Orth, special correspondent for Vanity Fair, has written five well researched articles on Jackson. Fans hate these articles and will always return to the now discredited article from GQ Magazine by Mary Fischer, yet the Jackson camp has never taken Ms Orth to task about any of the facts she presented in her articles. Here they are in the order they were published:
Nightmare in Neverland (July 1994)
While Michael Jackson was whisked away to detox treatment, the star's lawyers fought a desperate battle to protect him from facing the sexual-abuse charges brought by his 13-year-old accuser. The author untangles the whole painful story to provide the definitive account of Jackson's fall, and in it finds a late-20th-century parable of manipulation, corrupted fantasy, and lost innocence.
The Jackson Jive (September 1995)
Michael Jackson's interview with ABC News's PrimeTime Live was a public-relations triumph, in which 60 million viewers got anything but the truth.
Losing His Grip (April 2003)
From Michael Jackson's increasingly freakish appearance to his voodoo death spells, to the disturbing revelations in a $21.2 million civil suit against him, the pop star's life has been spinning out of control. Investigating his spiraling debt, his grandiose schemes, and his controversial relationship with children, Maureen Orth wonders if Jackson is as crazy as he seems - or a cool manipulator of his own fame.
Neverland's Lost Boys (March 2004)
The latest charges against Michael Jackson - of molesting a 13 year old cancer patient - are more than a deja vu of allegations that led to his $25 million settlement with young Jordie Chandler in 1994. Once again, Jackson and his lawyers are saying the motive of the boy and his family is pure greed. But the King of Pop's shield of fame and money is wearing thin. Maureen Orth reveals new information from the star's former business adviser, the ex-wife of his notorious PI, and other insiders about alleged porn and wine seductions, the forensic search of Neverland, and how both accusers' lives have been torn apart.
C.S.I. Neverland (July 2005)
Disfigured, deeply in debt, and with a history of drug addiction - at 46, Michael Jackson is also at the end of a criminal trial for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old cancer patient. After 12 years of covering Jackson's downward spiral and the recurring allegations of pedophilia, Maureen Orth explores the absurd and painful spectacle of this courtroom reckoning, the dysfunctional families on both sides of the case, and the dark tactics of Jackson's entourage.