I agree, the media are taking this whole drug thing blowing it way out of proportion. That's why I feel Brian Oxman should have just shut his trap and waited until the tox reports came back. He was the one who started this mess. I wouldn't have problem if they said MJ was dependent on drugs AFTER those tox reports come back and they have some sort of proof. But now all they are doing is speculating, and whatever information they get, regardless of how reliable the source is, they are reporting it as if they have the facts. Another thing that has been bothering me, is that they seem to only want to report negativity. How many media outlets repeated what Quincy said about MJ being ashamed of his race? Heaps. But when Michael's own dermatologist came out and confirmed that Michael Jackson had a skin condition, not once did it end up in the papers or on the news.
@ Green_Bean, anyone who talks about Michael being a bad father now is going to look like a fool. The world saw the home videos with Prince and Paris telling Michael how much they love him. The world saw the interviews with Michael's close friends, even some of his enemies, come out and call Michael Jackson a wonderful father. The world saw Paris saying that her daddy was the best father we could ever imagine. The world saw how much those children adored Michael. No one on any show can call him a bad father now. If they do, it will prove to people what we've been trying to explain to them all along: The media don't care about the facts. Their goal is to show Michael Jackson in the worst light possible. I saw Diane Diamond on TV saying that people at Neverland saw Michael do something inappropriate with Macauley Culkin. But did they mention that Macauley Culkin came out and denied that anything inappropriate was going on between him an Michael? NO.
This is a question I've been wanting to ask since Michael died: We, as Michael's fans, have been left with the task of protecting his legacy. Michael isn't here to respond to all the BS about him, so what do we do? Do we go out and complain about negative stories? Do we ignore them and hope that they go away? Or do we leave it up to the family and his lawyers to respond to everything? I don't know :scratch: I'm scared with the media putting all this negative spin on everything that Michael is going to be remembered for something he shouldn't be remembered for. I've heard them say so many times "oh he was a paedophile who got off, but his music was pretty good". He wasn't a paedophile and he shouldn't be remembered as one. I don't know what we should do.