tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36465859194360540332024-03-13T14:36:16.853-07:00THE KING OF POP MEMORIALMemorial dedicated in loving memory of The King Of Pop Michael Jackson. To celebrate his life and legacy. We will love you and miss you always. Your memory will live on through all of us.Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-71580921714495680542015-06-24T21:29:00.000-07:002015-06-24T21:29:12.986-07:00Being A Moonwalker: Then, Now And Forever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>It's simple but at the same time very hard, cause it's really personal. I have been a Michael Jackson fan for about 26 years now.</b><br />
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<b>The first time I saw him I saw the child in the mirror, he was everything I wanted to be as a human being, what I was meant to be as a lightworker (we are here to change the world).</b><br />
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<b>Being a Moonwalker was always an amazing thing for me. I had the luck to only meet people in my real life that liked or respected MJ. I was lucky enough in my whole life to be around people that even not being his fans liked his songs that I put to play so loud everyday to dance and sing and sometimes they would even scream from the street for me to play it again. It was really fun to see the reaction of others to his music, videos, his art in general and my interaction with it all.</b><br />
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<b>That Michael is a genius everybody knows, but what brought me even closer to him was his heart, his humanitarian self. I could see him with my heart, not only my eyes. He became a big part of my life, my heart and my own self.</b><br />
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<b>As a Brazilian child I learned English to understand his lyrics and it was so easy because I could already feel what he meant on his songs. He is the beat, he is the man I call Love.</b><br />
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<b>I grew up with MJ. His love, his music. He was all around me, he was my heartbeat and that helped me go through the difficult times I had in my life and still does to this day. I had to watch him suffer hell and I suffered with him and he always showed a super human strength so I had to be strong too. If he could do it, so could I. </b><br />
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<b>I won't go into details cause as I said before it's hard because it's personal and most people won't understand anyway, people will think is just another crazy fan that wants to feel special, who is obsessed, but my relationship with Michael Jackson goes beyond being a fan, goes on a spiritual level, I could see his soul, not only his genius, but actually the depth of his genuine love and concern for this planet. We had the same mission on this earth just in different levels.</b><br />
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<b>He made me a better person, he helped me accept myself as I was, beautifully different, and when he was gone he took a part of me with him and left a part of him with me. We are one as he always said.</b><br />
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<b>Being a Moonwalker for me is so much more than posting pictures of him on social networks, having his albums and memorabilia, supporting him and his family, it's who I am and who I will always be. </b><br />
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<b>I love you and miss you Michael Jackson from the bottom of my heart and I will always love you. Thank you for being in my life my Magical Child. Thank you for bringing so much joy, light and love to the world. May God bless you and we will meet someday, just watch!</b><br />
<br />Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-63085297401433765482015-06-21T03:05:00.001-07:002015-06-21T03:05:33.300-07:00Michael Jackson And The Number 7<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTZTZVH-nepf_dcp7Odm5EYz-JvOdUU3YM7ElNMe4Wrp6E4kjH-5mWm6DvMwOUw9-zy4J2ztyzyhSUF5sGsBwaR8rEG8Kd6SqEeFnnmNNg6I2L6BGjLtJjQw19va0fZvj2fzgFURFJ34/s1600-h/5612_96460529869_674324869_1943096_614855_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399000341686542162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTZTZVH-nepf_dcp7Odm5EYz-JvOdUU3YM7ElNMe4Wrp6E4kjH-5mWm6DvMwOUw9-zy4J2ztyzyhSUF5sGsBwaR8rEG8Kd6SqEeFnnmNNg6I2L6BGjLtJjQw19va0fZvj2fzgFURFJ34/s320/5612_96460529869_674324869_1943096_614855_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 202px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now the new urban legend with the name of Michael Jackson is the strange connection of the "King of Pop" with the number 7. According to website TMZ, "many strange facts tie the life of Michael with the macabre number". </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />* Michael Jackson signed his will on 7/7/2002. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />* A ceremony in honor of Michael was on Tuesday, 7/7/09 days, just 7 years after the signing of the will. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />* Two of the biggest hits of the star ("Black and White" and "Billie Jean") became the first of the charts for 7 weeks. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />* The three largest and best album ("Thriller," "Bad" and "Dangerous") put 7 songs on the charts of "Top 40". </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />* Michael was the 7th child of 9. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />* The pop-idol was born in 1958, which when added give the two dozen 77. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />* Michael died on 25th, which also adds 7. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />* Finally, Michael Jackson has 7 letters in his name and surname.</span>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-6402371053595909992015-06-19T15:38:00.000-07:002015-06-19T15:38:22.882-07:00Michael Jackson - An Angel Of L.O.V.E.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>25th of June is coming and my heart has been crying for some time now. I try to stay positive and thank God for the wonderful gift of being alive in this generation to have had the honor to follow Michael Jackson's career since I was a little girl.</b><br />
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<b>I was born a lightworker but I could have chosen not to do anything, but when I saw Michael for the first time there was no way back, if that Larger than life Angel, with fame, money was so humble and caring to want to change the world, like the lyrics of Man In The Mirror: "Who am I to be blind, pretending not to see their needs." Who was I not to try to make this world a better place?</b><br />
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<b>Michael Jackson was a gift sent from God to this world to teach us love, unity and charity. And for that he paid the ultimate price. ANYONE THAT THINKS THEY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER IS SEEN AS DANGEROUS. He was no exception. </b><br />
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<b>He spent his whole life being label weird, a freak, eccentric. Slandered by the media with lies and gossip and falsely accused of being a child molester, something that broke his spirit since his mission in this world was to show us all that we should care for our children cause they are the future. We are responsible for the adults they will become.</b><br />
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<b>Michael Jackson was the voice for the voiceless, he was the strength for the minorities. He just wanted to do good and love and be loved by the human being he was and not the cash machine he could be.</b><br />
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<b>The world was not prepared for someone like him. Cause in the sick minds of most of us, there is always an agenda. Like my mother used to tell me when I was a child, that people would always think you are capable of doing what they are capable of doing. Since most of us do the things we do with second intentions being them wanting fame, money, celebrity, attention, control and manipulation of others. etc... we don't know what pure, unconditional love is. Most of us couldn't believe Michael Jackson was any different and thought: "He can't be that good, something is not right with this guy." And later with the allegations the sick minded ones thought: "I knew it, he couldn't be that good." Yes he could, and he was!</b><br />
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<b>I decided to write this because we the fans are part of his legacy and I noticed that we have been dividing ourselves due to fakes on social networks, but not only that. NO fake in the world could divide us if we didn't allow them to. We are forgetting that Michael Jackson was about LOVE and not hate. He was about UNITY (WE ARE ONE) and not fights and division. He would never tell you to block a fellow fan, not even if this fan had hurt him for real. He would never tell you to attack anyone, he would never put himself in the "I'm the victim" character. Michael Jackson was a warrior. He never asked anyone to fight his fight for him, on the contrary, he would use his tools, his power to fight our fights for us.</b><br />
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<b>Let's remember the REAL Michael Jackson, the one we love and his message of LOVE, UNITY, TOLERANCE AND CHARITY. Let's remember the Michael Jackson that asked us not to judge people, specially the ones we don't even know. Let's remember the Michael Jackson that asked us so many times to HEAL THE WORLD.</b><br />
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<b>And for the ones that only talk about haters, "Oh poor me I have haters", haters, haters, haters, blablabla. Let's pray for these ones cause what they need is love. You talk about what's in your heart, even when you have no conscience you're doing it. If all you talk about is haters, the hate is in your head and heart, nowhere else.</b><br />
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<b>So, let's honor Michael Jackson the best way we can following his messages, the love is there, in his music, in his actions, in his smile. Let's try to be united and respect each other for the love of him, even when we have different opinions. That's what He would want us to do as his fans and his legacy. Because we are the ones now with the job to continue what he started. And let's never forget that our Hero Michael Jackson is the man called L.O.V.E. </b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-15088369718748571812015-03-27T12:24:00.001-07:002015-06-21T03:00:05.287-07:00Michael Jackson - You Rock My World (Extended Version)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1-7ABIM2qjU" width="480"></iframe>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-66584525803094793592015-03-24T19:38:00.000-07:002015-03-25T11:21:40.788-07:00Surviving Cyber Bullying On Social Networks Being An MJ Fan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>When we go to social networks, we are looking for an environment where we can relax and find people with the same interests as we do to befriend.</b><br />
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<b>That was my thought when I started to use my twitter account I had since 2008 in August last year. How wrong I was!</b><br />
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<b>I met a "friend" that at first was the sweetest person I've ever met, he was an MJ RP, always telling how much he loved me, almost too good to be true... because it was...</b><br />
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<b>After a while he asked me to block someone cause they were rude to him and I believed him and did, then some time later he came with the same thing but this time the someone that was rude to him was a good friend of mine, that I knew a lot better than I knew him. So I thought wait, something is fishy there and I waited to talk to her and found out it was the other way around. </b><br />
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<b>The guy was a control freak that insulted and unfollowed her just because she didn't have an MJ logo on her twitter page, but the day before that he said he loved her so much.</b><br />
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<b>The amazing thing was that the very next day I was the one with a nasty DM of his waiting for me calling me names, accusing me of playing with people's feelings and the list goes on just because I didn't comply with his order to block my friend. Truth is he was just getting started, this way his MO he would tell you to do something and if you didn't he would attack you, block you and tell others on DM to block you too cause you hurt him. This way nobody would ever know what really happened between his victims and himself and he could play the victim.</b><br />
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<b>I started to meet lots of other people he did the same to and I couldn't be quiet cause I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT HE WON'T STOP and many more will be hurt in the future. So the other victims of his and me would talk about what he did to us in hopes others would see and be careful for the same not to happen to them, that's when the bullying started, he making jokes calling us haters, devils that our day was coming, threatening to make a movie to show the good and bad people in his life (a good way to expose us to his followers so more people could bully us), threatened to go to court because we were harassing him and finally put our @ names on his page lying that we were fake MJ fans that have hurt him and would hurt others asking people to please block us.</b><br />
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<b>His last one, he wrote a twitlong talking about suicidal thoughts because the "hate club" according to him (talking about his victims that came out and spoke about what he did in public) hated him and wanted him gone and all the pity talk he could throw out but that a stranger was with him on the phone giving him strength not to kill himself and in the same twitlong he asked people not only to block us but to report us so we would be gone.</b><br />
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<b>Guys social networking bullying is true and nobody is safe from suffering it, and the social network itself won't be much of a help to you. You know how many times this guy was reported? Hundreds and he just deletes tweets and keeps going. So be careful out there, specially with RPs of famous people and unverified pages of famous celebrities that you love. They surely are fakes but they will use the love you have for the celebrity they are portraying to get control over you, and you never know who is on the other side of the screen, can be a psychopath, a pedophile, a narcissistic and the list goes on.</b><br />
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Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-62920275969283428922012-03-18T05:31:00.000-07:002012-03-18T05:31:33.151-07:00Michael Jackson - The Boy And The Pillow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3jXLvnoKuULCiYdlrTpR_FDUhzR29zeNNvMMvA4txAF2Tsgvz53TKX2kz5Xnp2gkfdKMBdNZEczWRbeO2LioyjgnYPNEOg9Oik3RITTcvc_Y7cjG0eMN2DDkArkWOMUTEMtbcB8z-LM/s1600/Michael-angel-tribute1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn3jXLvnoKuULCiYdlrTpR_FDUhzR29zeNNvMMvA4txAF2Tsgvz53TKX2kz5Xnp2gkfdKMBdNZEczWRbeO2LioyjgnYPNEOg9Oik3RITTcvc_Y7cjG0eMN2DDkArkWOMUTEMtbcB8z-LM/s320/Michael-angel-tribute1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>A wise father wanted to teach his young son a lesson. "Here is a pillow covered in silk brocade and stuffed with the rarest goose down in the land," he said. "Go to town and see what it will fetch."</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>First the boy went to the marketplace, where he saw a wealthy feather merchant. "What will you give me for this pillow?" he asked. The merchant narrowed his eyes. "I will give you fifty gold ducats, for I see that this is a rare treasure indeed." The boy thanked him and went on. Next he saw a farmer's wife peddling vegetables by the side of the road. "What will you give me for this pillow?" he asked. She felt it and exclaimed, "How soft it is! I'll give you one piece of silver, for I long to lay my weary head on such a pillow."</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>The boy thanked her and walked on. Finally he saw a young peasant girl washing the steps of a church. "What will you give me for this pillow?" he asked. Looking at him with a strange smile, she replied, "I'll give you a penny, for I can see that your pillow is hard compared to these stones." Without hesitation, the boy laid the pillow at her feet.</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>When he got home, he said to his father, "I have gotten the best price for your pillow." And he held out the penny. "What?" his father exclaimed. "That pillow was worth a hundred gold ducats at least."</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>"That's what a wealthy merchant saw," the boy said, "but being greedy, he offered me fifty. I got a better offer than that. A farmer's wife offered me one piece of silver." "Are you mad?" his father said. "When is one piece of silver worth more than fifty gold ducats?"</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>"When it's offered out of love," the boy replied. "If she had given me more, she wouldn't have been able to feed her children. Yet I got a better offer than that. I saw a peasant girl washing the steps of a church who offered me this penny."</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>"You have lost your wits completely," his father said, shaking his head. "When is a penny worth more than one piece of silver?" "When it's offered out of devotion," the boy replied. "For she was laboring for her Lord, and the steps of His house seemed softer than any pillow. Poorer than the poorest, she still had time for God. And that is why I offered her the pillow." At this the wise father smiled and embraced his son, and with a tear in his eye he murmured, "You have learned well."</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ps.: Taken from the book Dancing The Dream. </span></b></div>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-49617875182105771582012-03-18T05:18:00.001-07:002012-03-18T05:19:32.549-07:00Michael Jackson - Berlin 1989<div style="text-align: center;"><b>They hated the Wall, but what could they do? It was too strong to break through.<br />
They feared the Wall, but didn't that make sense? Many who tried to climb over it were killed.</b><br />
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<b>They distrusted the Wall, but who wouldn't? Their enemies refused to tear down one brick, no matter how long the peace talks dragged on.</b><br />
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<b>The Wall laughed grimly. "I'm teaching you a good lesson," it boasted. "If you want to build for eternity, don't bother with stones. Hatred, fear, and distrust are so much stronger."</b><br />
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<b>They knew the Wall was right, and they almost gave up. Only one thing stopped them. They remembered who was on the other side. Grandmother, cousin, sister, wife. Beloved faces that yearned to be seen.</b><br />
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<b>"What's happening?" the Wall asked, trembling. Without knowing what they did, they were looking through the Wall, trying to find their dear ones. Silently, from one person to another, love kept up its invisible work.</b><br />
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<b>"Stop it!" the Wall shrieked. "I'm falling apart." But it was too late. A million hearts had found each other. The Wall had fallen before it came down.</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ps.: Taken from the book Dancing The Dream. </span></b></div></div>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-82944013988686113162012-03-18T05:15:00.001-07:002012-03-18T05:20:04.236-07:00Michael Jackson - Angel Of Light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLs9NqlmzMtaz4W1aq2CJXxFf5Hx1unMXzVvbSxqBIeDgs-tVtx3Rf_tJTqbvENoJ7oxxmwP9iEC-MF4KDHaYYMRrZl_0yymW49XEYkqNUqfvQm7qk5N18Af_zA5sZ9n7KXuL2zVwljk/s1600/user2361_pic8061_1281726570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLs9NqlmzMtaz4W1aq2CJXxFf5Hx1unMXzVvbSxqBIeDgs-tVtx3Rf_tJTqbvENoJ7oxxmwP9iEC-MF4KDHaYYMRrZl_0yymW49XEYkqNUqfvQm7qk5N18Af_zA5sZ9n7KXuL2zVwljk/s320/user2361_pic8061_1281726570.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b> It's hard to see angels, although I've stared at their pictures for hours. Some people can see them without pictures, and they tell interesting tales. Guardian angels are all female, for instance, which didn't surprise me once I found out. A birth angel, recruited from the younger ranks, attends every baby when it appears, while another angel, older but not grim, helps the dying to leave this world without grief or pain.</b><br />
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<b>You can pray to the angels and they will listen, but the best way to call them, I am told, is to laugh. Angels respond to delight, because that is what they're made of. In fact, when people's minds are clouded by anger or hatred, no angel can reach them.</b><br />
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<b>Not all angels have wings -- so the visionaries claim -- but those who do can unfurl a span of golden feathers stretching over the entire world. If you had eyes that could look straight into the sun, you would see an overwhelming angel presiding there; a more serene one smiles out from the face of the moon.</b><br />
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<b>Angels spend their entire lives, which are forever, spinning around the Creator's throne, singing His praise. People with keen ears have listened in. The harmonies of the angelic choir are incredibly complex, they say, but the rhythm is simple. "It's mostly march time," one eavesdropper affirmed. For some reason, that fact is almost the best I have learned so far.</b><br />
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<b>After a while it got lonely hearing about angels you couldn't see for yourself. When an angel-watcher heard that, she was shocked. "Not see?" she said. "But you have an angel in you. Everybody does. I can see it right now, and I thought you could, too." "No," I said sadly, and I asked what it looked like. "Did it look like me?"</b><br />
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<b>"Well, yes and no," the angel-watcher mysterious answered. "It all depends on what you think you are. Your angel is a speck of light perched at the very center of your heart. It is smaller than an atom, but just wait. Once you get close to it, your angel will expand. The closer you come, the more it will grow, until finally, in a burst of light, you will see your angel in its true shape, and at that very instant, you will also see yourself."</b><br />
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<b>So now I am looking for my angel all the time. I sit silently, turning my gaze inward. It wasn't long before I caught a glimpse of something. "Is that you, Angel, holding a candle?" One flicker and it was gone. Yet that was enough to set my heart wildly beating. Next time my angel will be waving a lamp, then holding a torch aloft, then lighting a bonfire.</b><br />
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<b> That's what the angel-watcher promised, and now that I have caught sight of glory, I know enough to believe.</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ps.: Taken from the book Dancing The Dream. </span></b></div></div>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-87421409913332482172012-03-16T07:17:00.000-07:002012-03-16T07:17:49.232-07:00Madonna Eulogizes Michael Jackson<div align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="369" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dg0c5DWmb88" width="500"></iframe></div>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-74457708704210250672012-03-16T06:53:00.000-07:002012-03-16T06:53:35.068-07:00Michael Jackson's Billie Jean Motown 25 Live<div align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="369" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/g0TkguAxX5s" width="500"></iframe></div><br />
<b>On May 16, 1983 I danced Billie Jean on a TV show in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Motown. About 50 million people would attend the show. After that much has changed.</b><br />
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<b>The Motown 25 was recorded a month before April. The full title was Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, and Forever, and I must admit they had to convince me. I'm glad I said yes, because the show produced the most happy and proud moments of my life.</b><br />
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<b>As I mentioned I said no at first. They asked me to perform as a member of The Jacksons and a solo dance. But none of us were even Motown artists. There was huge debate between me and my business men. Weisner and DeMann. I thought about so much that Barry Gordy had done for me and the group. But I told my managers and Motown that I did not want to be on TV. My attitude on tv was just negative.</b><br />
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<b>Eventually, Barry came to meet me to discuss. I was editing "Beat It" in the studios of Motown, and someone must have told him I was there. He came into the studio and talked with me a long time. I said sure, I do, but it has to be "Billie Jean." It would be the only non-Motown music throughout the program. He said it was just what he wanted me to do. So we agreed to do a Medley of The Jacksons, which included Jermaine. We were all anxious.</b><br />
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<b>I gathered my brothers and we rehearsed for the show. I worked well with them, it was nice, a bit like the old days of Jackson 5. I had them choreographed and rehearsed for days in our house in Encino, filming to watch after each test. Jermaine and Marlom also contributed. Then we went to Motown in Pasadena to rehearse. We present and although there we spent all our energy in a trial, everyone was cheering and gathering around us to watch. Then I started my essay for Billie Jean. I just went through quickly because I had nothing planned yet. I had not had time because I was too busy rehearsing with the group.</b><br />
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<b>The next day I called my production and said "please get me a spy hat, a fedora-like something a secret agent would use." I wanted something sinister and special, and a stylish hat. Still did not have a concrete idea of what to do with Billie Jean.</b><br />
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<b>During the Thriller sessions, I found a black jacket, and I thought, “You know, someday I'll use it in a performance”. It was so perfect and so I just would use it in the Motown 25.</b><br />
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<b>But one night before the recording, I still had no idea what to do in solo number. I went to the kitchen of the house and played Billie Jean. Loud. I was there alone one night before the show. And I stood there listening to what the music told me to do. I kind of left alone to create the dance. I stopped talking to me, I heard the drums coming, I took the hat spy, did a pose and hit the foot, allowing the rhythm to create Billie Jean movements. I felt forced to allow it to create on its own. It was impossible to avoid. I only listened and let the dance come - it was really fun.</b><br />
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<b>I was also trained some steps and movements, almost all the performance was spontaneous. I practiced the Moonwalk for a while, and realized in the kitchen that finally I would do the Moonwalk on Motown 25.</b><br />
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<b>The Moonwalk already rolled in the streets by this time, but I perfected it a bit when I did. It started with a step of break, popping like that black children dancing in the ghettos. Black dancers are truly innovative, creating new dances so pure and simple. So I said "this is my chance to do", and did. These three children have taught me. They gave me the basics and danced well enough alone. I practiced along with other steps. The only certainty I had was that step the bridge of "Billie Jean", walk forward and backward at the same time. As if I walked on the moon.</b><br />
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<b>On the day of recording Motown was rushing everything. Delay. So I went and rehearsed alone. I already had my hat spy. My brothers asked what it was for the hat. I said they would have to wait and see. But I asked a favor to Nelson Hayes. "Nelson - After ending the number with my brothers and the lights dim, you throw this hat to me, I'll be in the dark corner near the exit of the stage, talking to the public, but you'll slowly back there and put the hat on my hand in the dark."</b><br />
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<b>So my brothers and I finished the presentation, I walked up the side of the stage and said, "you are beautiful! I would rather say that those were the good old days; were moments, all my brothers, including Jermaine. But what I really like "- Nelson putting the hat in my hand -"are the new songs." I turned and grabbed the hat and left to "Billie Jean" in a heavy rhythm, I could tell that people were enjoying it. My brothers said they were clapping and speechless, and my parents and sisters were watching. But I just remember opening my eyes in order to see this sea of people standing and applauding. I came into conflict with my emotions. I knew I had done my best and felt good. Really good. But at the same time I was disappointed. Had planned to give a nice turn and stop on tiptoe, suspended for a moment, but I was not long enough. I made the turn and stopped at one end only. I wanted to stay there, freeze, but did not work as I wanted.</b><br />
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<b>Backstage people congratulated me. I was disappointed because of the spin. I concentrated so much and to top it off I'm a perfectionist. But at the same time this was one of the happiest moments of my life. I knew it was the first time my brothers could see what I could do, how much I had evolved. After the performance each one hugged me and kissed me behind the scenes. They had never done this before, and I felt happy for us all. It was so beautiful when they kissed me. I loved it! Everybody hugged. My whole family hugs a lot. With the exception of my father. He is the only one who does not practice it. Every time we met we hugged, but when they kissed me that night I felt blessed by them.</b><br />
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<b>It was still gnawing at me with that performance, and was not satisfied until a little boy appeared in the background. He was about 10 years and was wearing a suit. He looked at me with shining eyes, static, and said, “man, who taught you to dance like this?" I kind of laughed and talked. "Training, I think." And the boy looked at me, dumbfounded. I walked away, and for the first time in the night, I felt I had reached my goal. I told myself that I did well because children are sincere. When that boy said what he said, I actually felt I had done a good job.</b><br />
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<b>I was so moved with the whole experience that I went home and wrote everything that had happened that night. My writing ended with meeting that boy.</b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-57928123378767029422012-03-03T17:47:00.000-08:002012-03-03T17:47:13.803-08:00The Misterious Project Of Michael Jackson<b>In 1983, Michael offered to pay the renewal of the family mansion in Encino. New projects are mostly ideas of Michael.</b><br />
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<b>Katherine Jackson shares the mysterious design of Michael to his family: Michael had a decorating project that he was determined to keep secret.</b><br />
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<b>"Do not climb into the attic," he kept telling me. "Attic" was the name we gave to two small rooms above the garage. Were in those rooms that he was working.</b><br />
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<b>"Well, I will not go up," I assured him. Even if I had wanted to take a peek, and I had, I could not. Michael kept the door locked. Michael let us know that he was preparing a gift for the family in those rooms.</b><br />
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<b>One day, finally, Michael said, "I want the whole family here. We're having a party. I want to show you what I did to the attic."</b><br />
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<b>Michael did not have to pull anyone's arm to go there. At that point Joe and the other children were as curious as me about the project's mysterious Michael. Michael worked at the attic until the last second.</b><br />
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<b>Even when we were all gathered in the dining room that day, appetizers prepared by his cook Rane, Michael was still walking on all sides with workers, trying to put the finishing touches on that special project. Something must have gone wrong, because at one point I saw him in tears.</b><br />
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<b>Whatever was the problem, Michael apparently managed to solve. Finally he appeared in the dining room and seemed much happier. Asking everyone's attention - as Michael was always a showman - he announced. "I have a surprise for you". He then led us silently to the outside and to the door leading to the attic. We climbed the stairs in single line.</b><br />
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<b>I do not know who was the last person in line, but he or she must have been dying of anticipation. Everyone that got up there would let out a scream or cry.</b><br />
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<b>What Michael did was to transform two rooms in a photographic version of "This Is Your Life" (a kind of documentary program showing the history of life). Starring the Jackson family.</b><br />
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<b>"Take a picture," said the message on the board that Michael had put on the wall, "is to capture a moment, stop time. It is to preserve the way we were, the way we are. They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Thus, with these photographs, I'll re-create some wonderful and magical moments in our lives ..."</b><br />
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<b>Michael had gotten pictures from my personal collection. One day when I was not around, he walked into my room, opened the suitcase where I left them saved, and took them. The enlarged images spread throughout every inch of wall space.</b><br />
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<b>"We were all very surprised, very touched. Michael was watching our reactions, it was obviously very important to him that we liked what he had done."</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ps.: (Text taken from the autobiography "My Family" by Katherine Jackson)</b></span>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-70021421302162829672012-03-03T15:40:00.000-08:002012-03-03T15:40:21.486-08:00One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History - Part 2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX6VQU0MG0whdX1rgZENrpNNxMWxGMqghqsDulghLARB2Rf0gR1o4lCuzh-9WZiHQlKUBZBep7mT1z5Gb5emn7oSfXEXtAjwL6-AZ5EuEcC8tyomOH7AKu0kh900YUPicVY_6BbivxzFo/s1600/Michael+Jackson+Hospitalized+ooHNM2nkcVXl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX6VQU0MG0whdX1rgZENrpNNxMWxGMqghqsDulghLARB2Rf0gR1o4lCuzh-9WZiHQlKUBZBep7mT1z5Gb5emn7oSfXEXtAjwL6-AZ5EuEcC8tyomOH7AKu0kh900YUPicVY_6BbivxzFo/s320/Michael+Jackson+Hospitalized+ooHNM2nkcVXl.jpg" width="216" /></a><b>Drudge agreed, adding, "You're not hearing how witness after witness is disintegrating on the stand. There is not one witness, at least lately, that hasn't admitted to perjuring themselves in previous proceedings either in this case or in some other case."</b><br />
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<b>This alarming trend of ignoring cross examination was perhaps most apparent in the media's coverage of Kiki Fournier's testimony. Under direct examination by the prosecution, Fournier - a Neverland housekeeper - testified that when at Neverland children often became unruly and she had sometimes seen children so hyperactive that they could, feasibly, have been intoxicated. The media scurried outside to report this apparent bombshell and missed one of the most significant pieces of testimony in the entire trial.</b><br />
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<b>Under cross examination by Thomas Mesereau, Fournier said that during the Arvizo family's final weeks at Neverland - the period during which the molestation supposedly happened - the two boys' guest room had been constantly messy, leading her to believe they'd been sleeping in their own quarters all along - not Michael Jackson's bedroom.</b><br />
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<b>She also testified that Star Arvizo had once pulled a knife on her in the kitchen, explaining that she did not feel it had been intended as a joke and that she thought he'd been 'trying to assert some sort of authority'.</b><br />
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<b>In a devastating blow to the prosecution's increasingly hilarious conspiracy charge, Fournier laughed at the idea that anybody could be held prisoner at Neverland Ranch, telling the jurors that there was no high fence around the property and the family could have walked out at any time 'with ease'.</b><br />
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<b>When Gavin and Star's mother Janet Arvizo took the stand Tom Sneddon was seen with his head in his hands. She claimed that a videotape of herself and her children praising Jackson had been scripted word for word by a German man who barely spoke English. In outtakes she was seen singing Jackson's praises then looking embarrassed and asking if she was being recorded. She said that had been scripted too.</b><br />
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<b>She claimed she'd been held hostage at Neverland even though log books and receipts showed that she'd left the ranch and returned on three occasions during the period of 'captivity'. It became apparent that she was currently under investigation for welfare fraud and had also been falsely obtaining money on the back of her son's illness, holding benefits to pay for his cancer treatment when he was already covered by insurance.</b><br />
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<b>Even the most ardent prosecution supporters had to admit that Janet Arvizo was a disastrous witness for the state. Except Diane Dimond, who in March 2005 seemed to use Janet Arvizo's welfare fraud (she was convicted in the wake of Jackson's trial) as roundabout proof of Jackson's guilt, signing off a New York Post article with the gob smacking line, "Pedophiles don't target kids with Ozzie and Harriet parents."</b><br />
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<b>Watching their case crumble before their eyes, the prosecution applied to the judge for permission to admit evidence of 'prior bad acts'. Permission was granted. Prosecutors told the jury they would hear evidence of five former victims. But those five prior cases turned out to be even more laughable than the Arvizos' claims.</b><br />
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<b>A parade of disgruntled security guards and housekeepers took the stand to testify that they had witnessed molestation, much of it carried out on three boys; Wade Robson, Brett Barnes and Macauley Culkin. But those three boys were the defense's first three witnesses, each of them testifying that Jackson had never touched them and they resented the implication.</b><br />
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<b>Moreover, it was revealed that each of these former employees had been fired by Jackson for stealing from his property or had lost a wrongful termination suit and wound up owing Jackson huge amounts of money. They'd also neglected to tell the police when they supposedly witnessed this molestation, even when questioned in connection with Jordy Chandler's 1993 allegations, but subsequently tried to sell stories to the press - sometimes successfully. The more money on the table, the more salacious the allegations became.</b><br />
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<b>Roger Friedman complained in an interview with Matt Drudge that the media was ignoring the cross examination of the 'prior bad acts' witnesses, resulting in skewed reporting. He said, "When Thursday started, that first hour was with this guy Ralph Chacon who had worked at the Ranch as a security guard. He told the most outrageous story. It was so graphic. And of course everybody went running outside to report on it. But there were ten minutes right before the first break on Thursday when Tom Mesereau got up and cross examined this guy and obliterated him."</b><br />
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<b>The fourth 'victim', Jason Francia, took the stand and claimed that when he was a child, Jackson had molested him on three separate occasions. Pushed for details of the 'molestation', he said Jackson had tickled him three times outside his clothes and he'd needed years of therapy to get over it. The jury was seen rolling their eyes but reporters including Dan Abrams heralded him as 'compelling', predicting that he could be the witness who put Jackson behind bars.</b><br />
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<b>The media repeatedly claimed that Francia's allegations had been made in 1990, leading audiences to believe that the Jordy Chandler allegations were predated. In actuality, although Jason Francia claimed that the acts of molestation occurred in 1990, he didn't report them until after the media storm over Chandler's claims, at which point his mother, Neverland maid Blanca Francia, promptly extracted $20,000 from Hard Copy for an interview with Diane Dimond and another $2.4million in a settlement from Jackson.</b><br />
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<b>Moreover, transcripts from police interviews showed that the Francia had repeatedly changed his story and had originally insisted that he'd never been molested. Transcripts also showed that he only said he was molested after police officers repeatedly overstepped the mark during interviews. Officers repeatedly referred to Jackson as a 'molester'. On one occasion they told the boy that Jackson was molesting Macauley Culkin as they spoke, claiming that the only way they could rescue Culkin was if Francia told them he'd been sexually abused by the star. Transcripts also showed that Francia had previously said of the police, "They made me come up with stuff. They kept pushing. I wanted to hit them in the head."</b><br />
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<b>June Chandler, Jordy's mother, testified that she hadn't spoken to her son in 11 years. Questioned about the 1993 case, she seemed to suffer from a severe case of selective memory. At one point she claimed she couldn't remember being sued by Michael Jackson and at another she said she'd never heard of her own attorney. She also never witnessed any molestation.</b><br />
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<b>When the prosecution rested, the media seemed to lose interest in the trial. The defense case was given comparatively little newspaper space and air time. The Hollywood Reporter, which had been diligently reporting on the Jackson trial, missed out two whole weeks of the defense case. The attitude seemed to be that unless the testimony was graphic and salacious - unless it made a good soundbite - it wasn't worth reporting.</b><br />
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<b>The defense called numerous fantastic witnesses; boys and girls who had stayed with Jackson time and again and never witnessed any inappropriate behavior, employees who had witnessed the Arvizo boys helping themselves to alcohol in Jackson's absence and celebrities who had also been targeted for handouts by the accuser. But little of this testimony was relayed to the public. When DA Tom Sneddon referred to black comic Chris Tucker as 'boy' during his cross examination, the media didn't bat an eyelid.</b><br />
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<b>When both sides rested jurors were told that if they found reasonable doubt, they had to acquit. Anybody who had been paying attention to proceedings could see that the doubt was so far beyond reasonable it wasn't even funny. Almost every single prosecution witness either perjured themselves or wound up helping the defense. There wasn't a shred of evidence connecting Jackson to any crime and there wasn't a single credible witness connecting him to a crime either.</b><br />
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<b>But that didn't stop journalists and pundits from predicting guilty verdicts, CNN's Nancy Grace leading the way. Defense attorney Robert Shapiro, who had once represented the Chandler family, stated with certainty on CNN, "He's going to be convicted." Ex-prosecutor Wendy Murphy told Fox News, "There is no question we will see convictions here."</b><br />
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<b>The hysteria of the fans outside the courthouse was mirrored by that of the reporters who secured seats inside, who were so excitable that Judge Rodney Melville ordered them to 'restrain themselves'. Thomas Mesereau commented retrospectively that the media had been "almost salivating about having [Jackson] hauled off to jail."</b><br />
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<b>When the jury delivered 14 'not guilty' verdicts, the media was 'humiliated', Mesereau said in a subsequent interview. Media analyst Tim Rutten later commented, "So what happened when Jackson was acquitted on all counts? Red faces? Second thoughts? A little soul-searching, perhaps? Maybe one expression of regret for the rush to judgment? Naaawww. The reaction, instead, was rage liberally laced with contempt and the odd puzzled expression. Its targets were the jurors... Hell hath no fury like a cable anchor held up for scorn."</b><br />
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<b>In a post-verdict news conference Sneddon continued to refer to Gavin Arvizo as a 'victim' and said he suspected that the 'celebrity factor' had impeded the jury's judgment - a line many media pundits swiftly appropriated as they set about undermining the jurors and their verdicts.</b><br />
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<b>Within minutes of the announcement, Nancy Grace appeared on CourtTV to allege that jurors had been seduced by Jackson's fame and bizarrely claim that the prosecution's only weak link had been Janet Arvizo.</b><br />
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<b>"I'm having a crow sandwich right now," she said. "It doesn't taste very good. But you know what? I'm also not surprised. I thought that celebrity is such a big factor. When you think you know somebody, when you have watched their concerts, listened to their records, read the lyrics, believed they were coming from somebody's heart... Jackson is very charismatic, although he never took the stand. That has an effect on this jury.</b><br />
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<b>"I'm not gonna throw a stone at the mom, although I think she was the weak link in the state's case, but the reality is I'm not surprised. I thought that the jury would vote in favor of the similar transaction witnesses. Apparently the defense overwhelmed them with the cross-examining of the mother. I think it boils down to that, plain and simple."</b><br />
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<b>Grace later stated that Jackson was 'not guilty by reason of celebrity' and was seen attempting to hound jury foreman Paul Rodriguez into saying he believed Jackson had molested children. One of Grace's guests, psychoanalyst Bethany Marshall, leveled personal attacks towards one female juror, saying, "This is a woman who has no life."</b><br />
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<b>Over on Fox News, Wendy Murphy branded Jackson 'the Teflon molester' and said that the jurors needed IQ tests. She later added, "I really think it's the celebrity factor, not the evidence. I don't think the jurors even understand how influenced they were by who Michael Jackson is... They basically put targets on the backs of all, especially highly vulnerable, kids that will now come into Michael Jackson's life."</b><br />
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<b>Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told CNN that he thought the 'prior bad acts' testimony had been 'effective evidence', even though various boys at the heart of that testimony had taken the stand as defense witnesses and denied ever being molested. He also claimed that the defense had won because "they could tell a story, and juries, you know, always understand stories rather than sort of individual facts."</b><br />
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<b>Only Robert Shapiro was dignified in the face of the verdicts, telling viewers that they should accept the jurors' decision because the jurors were from "a very conservative part of California and if they had no doubt, none of us should have any doubt."</b><br />
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<b>The following day on Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer upheld the notion that the verdict had been influenced by Jackson's celebrity status. "Are you sure?" she pleaded. "Are you sure that this gigantically renowned guy walking into the room had no influence at all?"</b><br />
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<b>The Washington Post commented, "An acquittal doesn't clear his name, it only muddies the water." Both the New York Post and the New York Daily News ran with the snide headline 'Boy, Oh, Boy!'</b><br />
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<b>In her final New York Post article about the trial, Diane Dimond bemoaned the not guilty verdict, saying that it left Michael Jackson untouchable. She wrote, "He walked out of court a free man, not guilty on all counts. But Michael Jackson is so much more than free. He now has carte blanche to live his life any way he wants, with whomever he wants, because who would ever try to prosecute Michael Jackson now?"</b><br />
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<b>In Britain's Sun newspaper, celebrity rent-a-gob and talking head extraordinaire Jane Moore penned an article titled 'If the jury agree Janet Arvizo is a bad mum (and she IS)... How did they let Jackson off?' It began: "Michael Jackson is innocent. Justice has been done. Or so the loony tunes gathered outside the courthouse would have us believe." She went on to question the jurors' mental capacity and dismiss the American legal system as 'half-baked'. "Nothing and no one truly emerges as a winner from this sorry mess," she finished, "least of all what they laughably call American 'justice'."</b><br />
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<b>Sun contributor Ally Ross dismissed Jackson's fans as 'sad, solitary dick-wits'. Another Sun article, penned by daytime TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, titled 'Don't forget the kids still at risk... Jacko's own', overtly labeled Jackson a guilty man. Kelly - who never attended Jackson's trial - bemoaned the fact that Jackson 'got away with it', complaining that "instead of languishing in jail, Jackson is now back home in Neverland." Jackson, she concluded, was "a sad, sick loser who uses his fame and money to dazzle the parents of children he takes a shine to."</b><br />
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<b>After the initial outrage, the Michael Jackson story slipped out of the headlines. There was little analysis of the not guilty verdicts and how they were reached. An acquittal was considered less profitable than a conviction.</b><br />
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<b>Indeed, Thomas Mesereau said in later years that if Jackson had been convicted it would have created a 'cottage industry' for the media, generating a story a day for years to come. Long-running sagas like custody of Jackson's children, control of his financial empire, other 'victims' filing civil suits and the long-winded appeals process would have generated thousands of stories each for months, years, perhaps even decades.</b><br />
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<b>Jackson's imprisonment would have created a never ending supply of gratuitous headlines; Who is visiting? Who isn't? Is he in solitary confinement? If not, who are his cellmates? What about his prison wardens? Does he have a prison pen-pal girlfriend? Can we fly a helicopter over the prison yard and film him exercising? The possibilities were endless. A bidding war was raging over who would get the first leaked images of Jackson in his cell before the jury even began its deliberations.</b><br />
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<b>A not guilty verdict was not quite so lucrative. In an interview with Newsweek, CNN boss Jonathan Klein recalled watching the not guilty verdicts come in and then telling his deputies, "We have a less interesting story now." The Hollywood Reporter noted that hastily assembled TV specials about Jackson's acquittal performed badly and were beaten in the ratings by a re-run of Nanny 911.</b><br />
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<b>The story was over. There were no apologies and no retractions. There was no scrutiny - no inquiries or investigations. Nobody was held to account for what was done to Michael Jackson. The media was content to let people go on believing their heavily skewed and borderline fictitious account of the trial. That was that.</b><br />
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<b>When Michael Jackson died the media went into overdrive again. What drugs had killed him? How long had he been using them? Who had prescribed them? What else was in his system? How much did he weigh?</b><br />
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<b>But there was one question nobody seemed to want to ask: Why?</b><br />
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<b>Why was Michael Jackson so stressed and so paranoid that he couldn't even get a decent night's sleep unless somebody stuck a tube full of anesthetic into his arm? I think the answer can be found in the results of various polls conducted in the wake of Michael Jackson's trial.</b><br />
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<b>A poll conducted by Gallup in the hours after the verdict showed that 54% of White Americans and 48% of the overall population disagreed with the jury's decision of 'not guilty'. The poll also found that 62% of people felt Jackson's celebrity status was instrumental in the verdicts. 34% said they were 'saddened' by the verdict and 24% said they were 'outraged'. In a Fox News poll 37% of voters said the verdict was 'wrong' while an additional 25% said 'celebrities buy justice'. A poll by People Weekly found that a staggering 88% of readers disagreed with the jury's decision.</b><br />
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<b>The media did a number on its audience and it did a number on Jackson. After battling his way through an exhausting and horrifying trial, riddled with hideous accusations and character assassinations, Michael Jackson should have felt vindicated when the jury delivered 14 unanimous not guilty verdicts. But the media's irresponsible coverage of the trial made it impossible for Jackson to ever feel truly vindicated. The legal system may have declared him innocent but the public, on the whole, still thought otherwise. Allegations which were disproven in court went unchallenged in the press. Shaky testimony was presented as fact. The defense's case was all but ignored.</b><br />
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<b>When asked about those who doubted the verdicts, the jury replied, "They didn't see what we saw."</b><br />
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<b>They're right. We didn't. But we should have done. And those who refused to tell us remain in their jobs unchecked, unpunished and free to do exactly the same thing to anybody they desire.</b><br />
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<b>Now that's what I call injustice. </b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-5368934117646609242012-03-03T15:31:00.000-08:002012-03-03T15:31:24.267-08:00One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History - Part 1<b>This article was divided in two parts. It was written by Charles Thomson and published in his blog in June 13, 2010.</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4wYdX4vbecU9WUMYRGQw90rcdAsclQtpSeNBKck2P3GFVXyZFANSw-DXbukTF7DI6NHG5svJKY9euayDlACGEyVtU96VDW0IKQn6jnve21E0RMrfJDG4im3ChwlwdVPlgt2Lbtsoxm0/s1600/20090629_083042_mj_2005_300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4wYdX4vbecU9WUMYRGQw90rcdAsclQtpSeNBKck2P3GFVXyZFANSw-DXbukTF7DI6NHG5svJKY9euayDlACGEyVtU96VDW0IKQn6jnve21E0RMrfJDG4im3ChwlwdVPlgt2Lbtsoxm0/s320/20090629_083042_mj_2005_300.jpg" width="229" /></a><b>It was five years ago today that twelve jurors unanimously acquitted Michael Jackson on various charges of child molestation, conspiracy and providing alcohol to a minor. It is difficult to know how history will remember the Michael Jackson trial. Perhaps as the epitome of western celebrity obsession. Perhaps as a 21st century lynching. Personally, I think it will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in journalistic history.</b><br />
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<b>It's not until you find yourself digging through newspaper archives and re-watching hours of TV coverage that you truly understand the magnitude of the media's failings. It was industry-wide. No doubt, there were certain reporters and even certain publications and TV stations that overtly favored the prosecution, but many of the media's shortcomings were institutional. In a media obsessed with soundbites, how to you reduce eight hours of testimony into two sentences and remain accurate? In an era of rolling news and instant blogging, how do you resist the temptation to dash out of the courtroom at the earliest opportunity to break news of the latest salacious allegations, even if it means missing a slice of the day's testimony?</b><br />
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<b>Looking back on the Michael Jackson trial, I see a media out of control. The sheer amount of propaganda, bias, distortion and misinformation is almost beyond comprehension. Reading the court transcripts and comparing them to the newspaper cuttings, the trial that was relayed to us didn't even resemble the trial that was going on inside the courtroom. The transcripts show an endless parade of seedy prosecution witnesses perjuring themselves on an almost hourly basis and crumbling under cross examination. The newspaper cuttings and the TV news clips detail day after day of heinous accusations and lurid innuendo.</b><br />
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<b>It was November 18th 2003 when 70 sheriffs swooped on Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. As soon as news of the raid broke, news channels abandoned their schedules and switched to 24 hour coverage. When it emerged that Jackson was accused of molesting young cancer survivor Gavin Arvizo, the boy who famously held the singer's hand in Martin Bashir's 'Living With Michael Jackson', the media went into overdrive. Networks were so obsessed by the Jackson scandal that a terrorist attack in Turkey went almost entirely unreported, with only CNN bothering to broadcast George Bush and Tony Blair's joint press conference about the disaster.</b><br />
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<b>All three major networks immediately set about producing hour-long specials on the Jackson case, apparently undeterred by the fact that nothing was yet known about the allegations and prosecutors weren't answering questions. CBS dedicated an episode of 48 Hours Investigates to the arrest, while NBC's Dateline and ABC's 20/20 also rushed out Jackson specials. Within two days of the Neverland raid, and before Jackson had even been arrested, VH1 announced a half-hour documentary called 'Michael Jackson Sex Scandal'.</b><br />
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<b>Daily Variety described the Jackson story as "a godsend for... media outlets, particularly cable news channels and local stations looking to pump up Nielsen numbers in the final week of the all-important November sweeps."</b><br />
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<b>Daily Variety was right. Celebrity-oriented news shows saw figures spike when the Jackson story hit. Viewing figures for Access Hollywood were up 10% on the previous week. Entertainment Tonight and Extra both achieved season best audience numbers and Celebrity Justice also enjoyed an 8% rise.</b><br />
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<b>Newspapers reacted just as hysterically as TV stations. 'Sicko!' shrieked the New York Daily News. 'Jacko: Now Get Out Of This One' goaded the New York Post.</b><br />
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<b>The Sun - Britain's biggest newspaper - ran an article titled 'He's Bad, He's Dangerous, He's History'. The piece branded Jackson an 'ex-black ex-superstar', a 'freak' and a 'twisted individual' and called for his children to be taken into care. "If he weren't a pop idol with piles of cash to hide behind," it said, "he would have been picked up years ago."</b><br />
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<b>Encouraged by the audience boosts the Jackson scandal had produced, media outlets made it their mission to milk the case for all that they could. Entertainment Weekly's Tom Sinclair wrote, "Media mavens, from the tackiest tabloid reporter to the nattiest network news anchor, are in overdrive scrambling to fill column inches and airtime with Jacko scoops and talking heads."</b><br />
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<b>"Pressure on news people is enormous," attorney Harland Braun told Sinclair. "So lawyers you've never heard of wind up on television talking about cases that they have no connection to."</b><br />
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<b>Sinclair added, "And not just lawyers. Everyone from doctors, writers, and psychiatrists to convenience-store clerks who once waited on Jackson are weighing in on TV and in print."</b><br />
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<b>While the media was busy badgering a host of quacks and distant acquaintances for their views on the scandal, the team of prosecutors behind the latest Jackson case was engaging in some highly questionable behavior - but the media didn't seem to care.</b><br />
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<b>During the Neverland raid District Attorney Tom Sneddon - the prosecutor who unsuccessfully pursued Jackson in 1993 - and his officers breached the terms of their own search warrant by entering Jackson's office and seizing hoards of irrelevant business papers. They also illegally raided the office of a PI working for Jackson's defense team and lifted defense documents from the home of the singer's personal assistant.</b><br />
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<b>Sneddon also appeared to be tampering with fundamental elements of his case whenever evidence came to light which undermined the Arvizo family's claims. For instance, when the DA found out about two taped interviews in which the entire Arvizo family sang Jackson's praises and denied any abuse, he introduced a conspiracy charge and claimed they'd been forced to lie against their will.</b><br />
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<b>In a similar instance, Jackson's lawyer Mark Geragos appeared on NBC in January 2004 and announced that the singer had a 'concrete, iron-clad alibi' for the dates on the charge sheet. By the time Jackson was re-arraigned in April for the conspiracy charge, the molestation dates on the rap sheet had been shifted by almost two weeks.</b><br />
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<b>Sneddon was later caught seemingly trying to plant fingerprint evidence against Jackson, allowing accuser Gavin Arvizo to handle adult magazines during the grand jury hearings, then bagging them up and sending them away for fingerprint analysis.</b><br />
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<b>Not only did the majority of the media overlook this flurry of questionable and occasionally illegal activity on the part of the prosecution, it also seemed perfectly content to perpetuate damning propaganda on the prosecution's behalf, despite a complete lack of corroborative evidence. For example, Diane Dimond appeared on Larry King Live days after Jackson's arrest and spoke repeatedly about a 'stack of love letters' the star had supposedly written to Gavin Arvizo.</b><br />
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<b>"Does anyone here... know of the existence of these letters?" asked King.</b><br />
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<b>"Absolutely," Dimond replied. "I do. I absolutely know of their existence!"</b><br />
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<b>"Diane, have you read them?"</b><br />
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<b>"No, I have not read them."</b><br />
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<b>Dimond admitted that she'd never even seen the letters, let alone read them, but said she knew about them from "high law enforcement sources". But those love letters never materialized. When Dimond said she 'absolutely knew' of their existence she was basing her comments solely on the words of police sources. At best, the police sources were parroting the Arvizos' allegations in good faith. At worst, they'd concocted the story themselves to sully Jackson's name. Either way, the story went around the world with not a shred of evidence to support it.</b><br />
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<b>It was over a year between Jackson's arrest and the beginning of his trial and the media was forced to try to pad the story out for as long as they could in the interim. Aware that Jackson was bound by gag order and therefore powerless to respond, prosecution sympathizers started leaking documents such as Jordan Chandler's 1993 police statement. The media, hungry for scandal and sensationalism, pounced on them.</b><br />
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<b>At the same time, allegations sold to tabloid TV shows by disgruntled ex-employees in the 1990s were constantly re-hashed and presented as news. Small details of the Arvizo family's allegations would also periodically leak.</b><br />
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<b>While most media outlets reported these stories as allegations rather than facts, the sheer amount and frequency of stories connecting Jackson to ugly sexual abuse, coupled with his inability to refute them, had a devastating effect on the star's public image.</b><br />
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<b>The trial began in early 2005 with jury selection. Asked by NBC about prosecution and defense jury selection tactics, Dimond said the difference was that prosecutors would be looking for jurors who had a sense of 'good versus evil' and 'right and wrong'.</b><br />
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<b>No sooner had the jurors been selected than Newsweek was trying to undermine them, claiming that a middle class jury would be unable to fairly judge a family of lower class accusers. In an article titled 'Playing the Class Card' the magazine said, "The Jackson trial may hinge on something other than race. And we don't mean the evidence."</b><br />
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<b>As the trial kicked into gear, it became quickly apparent that the case was full of holes. The prosecution's only 'evidence' was a stack of heterosexual porn magazines and a couple of legal art books. Thomas Mesereau wrote in a court motion, "The effort to try Mr. Jackson for having one of the largest private libraries in the world is alarming. Not since the dark day of almost three quarters of a century ago has anyone witnessed a prosecution which claimed that the possession of books by well known artists were evidence of a crime against the state."</b><br />
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<b>Gavin Arvizo's brother, Star, took the stand early in the trial and claimed to have witnessed two specific acts of molestation but his testimony was completely inconsistent. Regarding one alleged act, he claimed in court that Jackson had been fondling Gavin, but in a previous description of the same incident he told a wildly different story, claiming Jackson had been rubbing his penis against Gavin's buttocks. He also told two different stories about the other alleged act on two consecutive days in court.</b><br />
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<b>During cross examination Jackson's lawyer, Thomas Mesereau, showed the boy a copy of Barely Legal and repeatedly asked if it was the specific edition Jackson had shown him and his brother. The boy insisted that it was, only for Mesereau to reveal that it was published in August 2003; five months after the Arvizo family had left Neverland.</b><br />
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<b>But this information went almost entirely unreported, the media focusing on the boy's allegations rather than the cross examination which undermined them. Allegations make good soundbites. Complex cross examination does not.</b><br />
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<b>When Gavin Arvizo took the stand, he claimed that Jackson had instigated the first act of molestation by telling him that all boys had to masturbate or else they would turn into rapists. But Mesereau showed under cross examination that the boy had previously admitted his grandmother made that comment, not Jackson, meaning that the whole molestation story was predicated on a lie.</b><br />
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<b>Under cross examination the boy severely undermined the prosecution's conspiracy charge by claiming he'd never felt afraid at Neverland and he'd never wanted to leave. His accounts of the alleged molestation also differed from his brother's.</b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGj-b1IPJ9tz8fohlQPQ60zsLaZV_jwRW_1XqZRoU3hHWahCSLUh0MqJUaBcjJUEuNSEEJ4SfPyLScL9s9M0pFHtnqU4M9GRqUCFKTFWluTNODGi87exyeabQQpgEf8TWmtE7npTuwGE/s1600/michael-jackson-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGj-b1IPJ9tz8fohlQPQ60zsLaZV_jwRW_1XqZRoU3hHWahCSLUh0MqJUaBcjJUEuNSEEJ4SfPyLScL9s9M0pFHtnqU4M9GRqUCFKTFWluTNODGi87exyeabQQpgEf8TWmtE7npTuwGE/s200/michael-jackson-9.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>Unfortunately for Jackson, Gavin Arvizo's cross examination was all but ignored as newspapers giggled and gossiped about what became known as 'pajama day'. On the first day of the boy's direct examination Jackson slipped in his shower, bruised his lung and was rushed to hospital. When Judge Rodney Melville ordered a bench warrant for Jackson's arrest unless he arrived within an hour, the singer sped to the courthouse in the pajama trousers he'd been wearing when he was rushed to hospital.</b><br />
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<b>The photographs of Jackson in his pajamas went all over the word, often with no mention of Jackson's injury or the reason he was wearing them. Many journalists accused Jackson of faking the entire event in order to gain sympathy, although sympathetic is the last word you'd use to describe the media's reaction.</b><br />
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<b>The incident didn't stop the media from sending Gavin Arvizo's lurid allegations around the world the following day. Some outlets even ran the boy's testimony as fact rather than conjecture. "He Said If Boys Don't Do It They Might Turn Into Rapists - Cancer Boy Gavin Tells Court of Jacko Sex," wrote The Mirror.</b><br />
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<b>But the boy's cross examination was another story. It went almost completely unreported. Instead of stories about Gavin Arvizo's lies and the two brothers' contradictory allegations, newspaper pages were filled with snarky opinion pieces about Jackson's pajamas, even though 'pajama day' had been days previously. Thousands of words were dedicated to whether or not Jackson wore a wig and the Sun even ran an article attacking Jackson for the accessories he pinned to his waistcoats every day. It seemed like the press would write anything to avoid discussing the boy's cross examination, which severely undermined the prosecution's case.</b><br />
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<b>This habit of reporting lurid allegations but ignoring the cross examination which discredited them became a distinct trend throughout Jackson's trial. In an April 2005 interview with Matt Drudge, Fox columnist Roger Friedman explained, "What's not reported is that the cross examination of these witnesses is usually fatal to them." He added that whenever anybody said anything salacious or dramatic about Jackson, the media 'went running outside to report on it' and missed the subsequent cross examination.</b><br />
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<b>To be continued...</b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-3273183746167692412012-03-03T14:02:00.000-08:002012-03-03T14:02:35.826-08:00Michael Jackson - Hold My Hand Duet ft. Akon<div align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="284" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-oCCnxBos10" width="500"></iframe></div><br />
<b>Hold My Hand </b><b>(Michael Jackson Duet with Akon)</b><br />
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<b>This life don't last forever (hold my hand)</b><br />
<b>So tell me what we're waitin for (hold my hand)</b><br />
<b>Better off being together (hold my hand)</b><br />
<b>Than being miserable alone (hold my hand)</b><br />
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<b>Cause I've been there before</b><br />
<b>And you've been there before</b><br />
<b>But together we can be alright.</b><br />
<b>Cause when it gets dark and when it gets cold</b><br />
<b>We can just hold each other till we see the sunlight</b><br />
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<b>So if you just hold my hand</b><br />
<b>Baby I promise that I'll do all I can</b><br />
<b>Things will go better if you just hold my hand</b><br />
<b>Nothing can come in between us if you just hold, hold my, hold my, hold my hand.</b><br />
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<b>The nights are getting darker (hold my hand)</b><br />
<b>And there's no peace inside (hold my hand)</b><br />
<b>So why make our lives harder (hold my hand)</b><br />
<b>By fighting love, tonight.</b><br />
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<b>Cause I've been there before</b><br />
<b>And you've been there before</b><br />
<b>But together we can be alright.</b><br />
<b>Cause when it gets dark and when it gets cold</b><br />
<b>We can just hold each other till we see the sunlight</b><br />
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<b>So if you just hold my hand</b><br />
<b>Baby I promise that I'll do all I can</b><br />
<b>Things will go better if you just hold my hand</b><br />
<b>Nothing can come in between us if you just hold my hand</b><br />
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<b>I can tell you're tired of being lonely( yeahh)</b><br />
<b>Take my hand dont let go baby hold me (hold me)</b><br />
<b>Come to me let me be your one and only (hold my hand)</b><br />
<b>So I can make it alright til' the morning (hold my Hand)</b><br />
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<b>I can tell Ur tired of being lonely (hold my hand)</b><br />
<b>Take my hand don't let go baby hold me (hold me)</b><br />
<b>Come to me let me be your one and only (one and only)</b><br />
<b>So I can make it alright til' the morning(hold my Hand)</b><br />
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<b>Baby I promise that I'll do all I can (if you just, if you just)</b><br />
<b>Things will get better if you just hold my hand</b><br />
<b>Nothing can come in between us if you just hold, hold my, hold my hand</b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-63141468211222262662012-03-03T12:51:00.000-08:002012-03-03T12:51:02.003-08:00Stop The Offensive Videos Against Michael Jackson<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyP6lGU2-C2pjI_hpoKo0WggE4XkQfalauXEiUU_nE7t8wv7EVOculQfaZKA03e-laxbWo_O-KTsa696TCAWgWQQqLRhdJGw-Zy-Coty-MbDzax2FneR8ZCoLwDr_zhyphenhyphenoZL-i42yETbDE/s1600/mj-301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyP6lGU2-C2pjI_hpoKo0WggE4XkQfalauXEiUU_nE7t8wv7EVOculQfaZKA03e-laxbWo_O-KTsa696TCAWgWQQqLRhdJGw-Zy-Coty-MbDzax2FneR8ZCoLwDr_zhyphenhyphenoZL-i42yETbDE/s200/mj-301.jpg" width="200" /></a><b>As we know on YouTube there are many videos full of hate against Michael Jackson. </b><br />
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<b>Some of them, just as an example, are "Michael Jackson is a child rapist", "Rest in hell MJ", and so on...</b><br />
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<b>We've already flagged them as offensive but the site didn't remove them. It's a shame!</b><br />
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<b>Michael was acquitted by a jury: he was proven INNOCENT and he deserves RESPECT! That respect that every man deserves.</b><br />
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<b>Please sign this petition to ask YouTube to remove offensive videos and offensive accounts.</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43708.html">Stop the Offensive Videos Against Michael Jackson Petition | GoPetition</a></b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-59312776456551833372012-03-02T11:51:00.000-08:002012-03-02T11:51:22.708-08:00Michael Jackson - This Is It<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TYZKIM/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=debkatblo-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B002TYZKIM" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B002TYZKIM&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=debkatblo-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=debkatblo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002TYZKIM" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><b>Actors: Michael Jackson</b><br />
<b>Directors: Kenny Ortega</b><br />
<b>Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC</b><br />
<b>Language: English</b><br />
<b>Subtitles: English, French</b><br />
<b>Studio: Sony Pictures</b><br />
<b>DVD Release Date: January 26, 2010</b><br />
<b>Run Time: 111 minutes</b> <br />
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<b>The pop music history would change drastically on June 25th when the world discovered that the greatest pop star of all time Michael Jackson had died of cardiac arrest. Michael Jackson was finishing rehearsals for his concert series entitled This Is It that would take place at at London's O2 Arena from July 13, 2009 to March 6, 2010.</b><br />
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<b>Following Jackson's death a compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TYZKIM/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=debkatblo-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B002TYZKIM">Michael Jackson's This Is It</a> was released on October 28, 2009.</b><br />
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<b>Michael Jackson's This Is It offers Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts. Chronicling the months from April through June 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. </b><br />
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<b>Audiences are given a privileged and private look at Jackson as he has never been seen before. In raw and candid detail, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TYZKIM/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=debkatblo-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B002TYZKIM">Michael Jackson's This Is It</a> captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show. Directed by Kenny Ortega, who was both Michael Jackson's creative partner and the director of the stage show.</b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-62459206505109818982012-03-01T20:00:00.000-08:002012-03-01T20:00:34.435-08:00Dancing The Dream<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_F0a4UoX9Dvw/SkmVD8i9ecI/AAAAAAAAAeY/CbsvCkmcmHA/s128/michael_jackson4.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_F0a4UoX9Dvw/SkmVD8i9ecI/AAAAAAAAAeY/CbsvCkmcmHA/s128/michael_jackson4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 207px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 185px;" /></a><b>"Consciousness expresses itself through creation.This world we live in is the dance of the creator.</b><br />
<b>Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on.</b><br />
<b>On many occasions when I dance, I've felt touched by something sacred.</b><br />
<b>In those moments, I feel my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved.</b><br />
<b>I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave.</b><br />
<b>I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known.</b><br />
<b>I keep on dancing and then, it is the eternal dance of creation.</b><br />
<b>The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. </b><br />
<b>I keep on dancing and dancing... and dancing, until there is only... the dance..."</b><br />
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<b>Michael Jackson.</b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646585919436054033.post-4437623443995910192012-03-01T13:31:00.002-08:002012-03-01T20:01:17.274-08:00HIStory<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8hnT2G2h9cD8sfHJ6oknOzJjbftAIs4gLcMPhTMxoj8wtktahwby1OSIZcF9O3v-csUKgOS0TD8mbqUQsRUgzuzdw3Hkbg9MdiXNRJ8pvs94XKGOvJuRedNzo5V_U4DsFFaM09rUfM0c/s1600/4ac3f43e4729a1bad5ccc8fcf37c076b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8hnT2G2h9cD8sfHJ6oknOzJjbftAIs4gLcMPhTMxoj8wtktahwby1OSIZcF9O3v-csUKgOS0TD8mbqUQsRUgzuzdw3Hkbg9MdiXNRJ8pvs94XKGOvJuRedNzo5V_U4DsFFaM09rUfM0c/s320/4ac3f43e4729a1bad5ccc8fcf37c076b.jpg" width="215" /></a><b>Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5, then the Jacksons in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.</b><br />
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<b>In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style have influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.</b><br />
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<b>Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time. His other records, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best-selling. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Dance Hall of Fame as the first (and currently only) dancer from the world of pop and rock 'n' roll. Some of his other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13 Grammy Awards (as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award); 26 American Music Awards (more than any other artist, including the "Artist of the Century"); 13 number-one singles in the United States in his solo career (more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era); and the estimated sale of over 750 million records worldwide. Jackson won hundreds of awards, which have made him the most-awarded recording artist in the history of popular music.</b><br />
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<b>While preparing for his concert series titled "This Is It", Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25, 2009, after suffering from cardiac arrest.</b><br />
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<b>Michael Jackson is survived by three children: Michael Jr., Paris, and Prince.</b>Deborah Katyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13239735068323428815noreply@blogger.com0