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Re: [Discussion] Michael Jackson Slandered By The Mirror
It's even more shocking that the rest of the media does not seem to have the brain or willingness to see this article for what it is, they just copy&paste uncritically. A case study could (and should!) be written about it in academy where they are dealing with media analysis.
Yep, the article all over the place. 24 boys, 17 boys or 3 boys? They contradict themselves three times within an article!
BTW Jordan and Jason did not get "hush money" either, even if the media likes to use that term for it. The idea in this article is that MJ paid off boys to buy their silence. But that is precisely what he REFUSED to do in Jordan's case and that's why the Chandlers accused him! The settlement came after it went public and to authorities. Same with Jason. The settlement came after criminal proceedings were over and also after Jason's allegations went public. So none of that was "hush money". Though I agree probably that's what Barresi means + the fictional Richmond.
I'm still wondering how they can claim mitteager's files which seem to have been amongst those shown on the mirror's website are said to be in pellicano's possession when the fbi raided. Mitteager left all his tapes etc when he died to barresi who transcribed them all. But Mitteager didn't die until 1997. So why wd pellicano have them in his filing cabinets - he was working for bert fields as a pi for mj during the chandler affair only from july-nov 93.
I reread that ghastly mirror article and still can't get where the heading of 24 boys being paid $35million comes from. In the body of text it says 24 boys were paid off but in another place it quotes barressi, the anonymous investigator, as saying 'at least 3 boys got hush money' - these would be jordie, jason who we've known about for the past decade, and presumably this fictional brandon k richmond who has the contract drawn up by weitzman. There's just zilch attempt to say anything about the other 21 boys and the over $10millon still remaining of hush money apart from that list of blacked out names in an email from some anonymous person saying mj paid off these victims. It's just unbelievable how bad the reporting is, they know they can just say whatever they want about mj, even knowing one of his chidren has just had a suicide attempt. I imagine there will be the fbi files #2 in this sunday's paper too.
It's even more shocking that the rest of the media does not seem to have the brain or willingness to see this article for what it is, they just copy&paste uncritically. A case study could (and should!) be written about it in academy where they are dealing with media analysis.
Yep, the article all over the place. 24 boys, 17 boys or 3 boys? They contradict themselves three times within an article!
BTW Jordan and Jason did not get "hush money" either, even if the media likes to use that term for it. The idea in this article is that MJ paid off boys to buy their silence. But that is precisely what he REFUSED to do in Jordan's case and that's why the Chandlers accused him! The settlement came after it went public and to authorities. Same with Jason. The settlement came after criminal proceedings were over and also after Jason's allegations went public. So none of that was "hush money". Though I agree probably that's what Barresi means + the fictional Richmond.