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Why did Michael fire Bob Jones?

why was Bob Jones not given a retirement package by Michael???? ARE YOU JOKING?! Most people get lousy pension schemes and thats after years of loyal service why would Bob Jones, scrambling for some cash feeding into the tabloids be given any benefit package. He should have been slapped with one law suit after the other and demoted..not rewarded for being the arse he is. Seems to me he was 'fired' in a quiet way by Michael Jackson, just that Jones himself caused more embarrassment.
 
Datsymay said:
I think that a lot of people didn't think MJ could have won his case and decided to cash in while the iron was hot. They were banking on jail time. Bob's book may have sold like hot cake of MJ was convicted, so would DD'd. Many people were banking on MJ going down. They lost big time.
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TSCM said:
Bob Jones' book was being passed out around the courthouse like cigarettes throughout the entire jury deliberation process, with passages from it being plastered across every network and news outlet. Quite sickening that such conduct was allowed and even encouraged as a last-ditch effort to taint the jurors.
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That's why that leech pig queen is gone, he was to me the worst of the worst as pathetic as the Arviso's were you could almost understand how they got seduced with certain tabloid hacks encouraging them but Jones had known of the whole Jackson family since the beginning of their careers and to do what he did is unforgiveable i hope there is a spot in hell hot enough for that queen and that tranny Stacy Brown to join in as well.
 
as im sure others have said it was reported that jones was fired because mjs ppl found out he was writing his tell all book. and as i think tscm said after his book came out it became pretty clear that he had been leaking B.S to the tabs for a good many years as the stories were exactlythe same as were in his book. jones had it to good for to long,getting paid for doing absoloutly nothing other than leaking B.S to the tabs for a few xtra $ hes scum nothing more nothing less
 
punchdrunklove114 said:
That's why that leech pig queen is gone, he was to me the worst of the worst as pathetic as the Arviso's were you could almost understand how they got seduced with certain tabloid hacks encouraging them but Jones had known of the whole Jackson family since the beginning of their careers and to do what he did is unforgiveable i hope there is a spot in hell hot enough for that queen and that tranny Stacy Brown to join in as well.
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elusive moonwalker said:
as im sure others have said it was reported that jones was fired because mjs ppl found out he was writing his tell all book. and as i think tscm said after his book came out it became pretty clear that he had been leaking B.S to the tabs for a good many years as the stories were exactlythe same as were in his book. jones had it to good for to long,getting paid for doing absoloutly nothing other than leaking B.S to the tabs for a few xtra $ hes scum nothing more nothing less
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:clap: :clap: Bobette is worse than horse manure!
 
i support MJ's choice and decision,but Bob Jones is a cat who been in the game back when MJ was a real youngster and he been through some stuff. 9 times out of 10 things come down to Money.

from what I heard more folks were shocked and sad about MJ parting with Bob Jones than the actual charges or case against MJ. the thing is, quite a few folks saw a weak case, but hating seeing MJ let Bob Jones go.
 
There is no way you can look at things now and still feel the same way.
 
Bottom line...

Many people will do and say "Anything for Money"..!

What many people don't realise...Money, Fame, nor Fortune does not buy Happiness~~~
 
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Bob Jones is a piece of sh*t, plain and simple. He didn't care about Michael and he's the ultimate hypocrite, turning out to be the very thing he preached against for years. He talked a big game about wanting to help Michael keep his legacy alive, how important it was, how good Michael was, and then he turns around and ends up being one of those very people he talked against, who tried to destroy Michael and bleed him for everything they could get. Fu*k Bob Jones, to put it bluntly. I didn't believe it when Diane Dumbitch was saying he was going to turn on Michael, but I guess when Michael's involved, you can't trust any of these people. They just want theirs. They don't care about Michael. His life was on the line and Bob Jones was selling lies to tabloids, writing bullsh*t books, testifying against him, selling his soul to the devil. Low. I don't care if people were upset that they split. Bob Jones was dead weight and a coward. If people were more upset about that then with Michael's life almost being taken from him, then they're blind, dillusional and don't know sh*t about what's important in life.
 
ugh he was a jerk, i bought that book and burned it just 4 fun.
 
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Big Apple2 said:
I realize that Mr. Jones worked for Mike for 20 years (or something like that), but the real question is, what did Mr. Jones do during the LATTER part of his employment, that should have pursueded Mike to keep him on? Was it worth Mike keeping Mr. Jones on, if Mr. Jones was not working to the best of his ability?
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That's it... in the last 2 years Bob Jones was only formally working for Michael, but still kept a nice paycheck... I mean, that guy is old... retirement age, there is a time for everyone to leave! But still, the way it supposedly was done, was not correct! But then again, by revealing his true colours, by writing that crap book, he got what he deserved!
 
I read it in MJ conspiracy that MJ insulted him and created some
hard feelings by terminating him that way. AJ also wrote: Not
long after his termination, Bob Jones decided to write a book.
I think those things AJ wrote is quite misleading.
I always thought Bob Jones used to be a loyal and good friend
of Michael Jackson until he was fired. So when i read that,
it gave me some kind of assurance that what i thought all
along was rite. But it doesnt mean i think that
justifies what he did
to MJ after he got sack.

Little did i know that he was leaking rumors to the media
to earn money and was planning his tell all book, stabbing
MJ behind his back when he was still under MJ's payroll.
Little did i know that he was betting on MJ
to be convicted so that he could make big money off of
MJ's suffering. I can't believe he was so heartless.
After what you all have said, i think he deserves
to be fired long before that and
i even think MJ is merciful enough to fire him the way he had
fired him.

anyway, a man who would turn on someone and take revenge
purely because he was terminated in a not-so-good-way
(It looks like it if you don't know the reason behind it)
just reveal the kind of person he is.

And i got what KOPV was saying about not comfortable
in confronting people. MJ must be very hurt and shocked after
he learnt the truth and i can see MJ is not the type who
would confront people, he just isn't comfortable with it.
That's how he always is, he would simply ignore
that particular person to avoid
dealing with him.

Thanks everyone for clearing my doubts.
 
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wannabestartinsomthin21 said:
He didn't care about Michael and he's the ultimate hypocrite, turning out to be the very thing he preached against for years. He talked a big game about wanting to help Michael keep his legacy alive, how important it was, how good Michael was, and then he turns around and ends up being one of those very people he talked against, who tried to destroy Michael and bleed him for everything they could get.
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And that's why NOBODY in the industry wants to be bothered with Mr. Jones.

He could have linked up with somebody else by now. He COULD have gone on and worked with another artist. He's been in the industry for so many years and HAD so many contacts, but he is "persona non grata" now. After what he did to Mike, nobody wants to bothered with him.

He TRULY played himself!
 
Big Apple2 said:
And that's why NOBODY in the industry wants to be bothered with Mr. Jones.

He could have linked up with somebody else by now. He COULD have gone on and worked with another artist. He's been in the industry for so many years and HAD so many contacts, but he is "persona non grata" now. After what he did to Mike, nobody wants to bothered with him.

He TRULY played himself!
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Excellent post. ^_^

Very much the same with Martin Bashir- he really played himself by doing what he did to Michael too, and hasn't done much since.
 
punchdrunklove114 said:
Bob Jones was fired in 2004 for someone to bring it up now it's rather suspect like they trying to start ish here at MJJC, are you a friend of Bob Jones?
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That's exactly what I was thinking. But could the person be Bob Jones, LOL.

Why on earth would anyone feel sorry for Bob Jones. He strikes me as dishonest, and he got off very lightly after what he wrote about Michael.
 
marnifrances said:
Excellent post. ^_^

Very much the same with Martin Bashir- he really played himself by doing what he did to Michael too, and hasn't done much since.
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Martin Bashir has a huge gig with ABC Nightly News. He's one of the cohosts. That's why I was a little shocked that ABC actually had the nerve to use Michael's "Wanna Be Startin' Something" to advertise the new season for Desperate Housewives. ABC also is the one that hired Bashir after that trashcumentary called LWMJ
 
ilovemjj4ever said:
He turned against him and wrote the book after he was fired.
So that is not the reason.
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Well, if you don't believe it to be the reason, then you already know perhaps? Why are you asking?

Michael can hire and fire who ever he wants for whatever reasons. At the end of the day, it's really non of the fan's affair.
 
mello1 said:
Well, if you don't believe it to be the reason, then you already know perhaps? Why are you asking?

Michael can hire and fire who ever he wants for whatever reasons. At the end of the day, it's really non of the fan's affair.
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i agree..........
 
KOPV said:
Don't forget that Michael has never felt comfortable confronting ppl in a negitive way..

Even as a child when his brothers would be playing basketball while they were supposed to be recording, Michael would pull Joseph or the producer aside and ask them to tell his brothers to get into the studio..

When someone in the band or working with the Jacksons were seen doing drugs by Michael he would tell someone to 'take care of it'..


He has just never been a confronting person.. Someone that Loves a lot, thinks of what other people THINK SO MUCH.. that they cannot confront well.. They get overwhelmed and sometimes feel so uncomfertable they start stuttering, sweating, etc.. It's almost a phobia type thing..

It usually happens to people that have had a very dominant parent figure.

I can understand this because I have been the same way.. Not in all cases but I can relate
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i can relate too. Michael was and is always singleminded, and business as usual. He has good rare qualities. Jones was just another version of martin Bashir.....
 
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Michael said to his mother during the trial that he couldn't believe who was willing to get on the stand a speak against him and who just turned on him in general, and that it really hurt him. Bob Jones I'm certain was one of those people he was referring to.
 
jaydom7 said:
Martin Bashir has a huge gig with ABC Nightly News. He's one of the cohosts. That's why I was a little shocked that ABC actually had the nerve to use Michael's "Wanna Be Startin' Something" to advertise the new season for Desperate Housewives. ABC also is the one that hired Bashir after that trashcumentary called LWMJ
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Oh very very interesting!

I was mostly referring to interviews- where he has done very little since MJ. But the ABC thing shocks me! :eek:

And, the 4 people who posted above me, I concur with all. :punk:
 
jaydom7 said:
Martin Bashir has a huge gig with ABC Nightly News. He's one of the cohosts. That's why I was a little shocked that ABC actually had the nerve to use Michael's "Wanna Be Startin' Something" to advertise the new season for Desperate Housewives. ABC also is the one that hired Bashir after that trashcumentary called LWMJ
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yep. i posted all of that in my desperate houswives thread. i included that it was a full circle thing with disney, who owns abc tv. from captain eo, to the removal of captain eo...in 1993..'coincidentally'. to the firing of the guy that headed disney after the removal of captain eo...to lwmj, to Mj's trials...to abc hiring bashir as a result, to abc losing it's greatest network franchise(monday night football) because of a great loss of money, and therefore losing much of its ratings success....to abc tv touting an entire new season to the tune of the jackson five's 'abc', fourteen years later...for obvious reasons... to a renewed vitality for abc tv, featuring hit shows like 'dancing with the stars', now, desperate housewives promo in 2008, 'coincidentally' with the success of t25, and, then, abc tv's dancing with the stars just had one of MJ's catalogue artists perform on it. lol..better to be on MJ's side, if you wanna succeed.
 
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All of these major networks know where the ratings magic is. And they are gonna go there because after all, all they really care about is money and sponsorship. That's it. Whoever can bring it for them will be allowed to do so.
 
AllTheLovelyFlowers said:
All of these major networks know where the ratings magic is. And they are gonna go there because after all, all they really care about is money and sponsorship. That's it. Whoever can bring it for them will be allowed to do so.
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lol..well..as strange as it may sound..money is michael's friend.
 
I don't like the man. He looks a bit like Joseph Jackson and has a very sneaky demeanor!
 
I don't get this universal trust and distrust of people we don't know. I don't know if Bob Jones was an evil man. I don't blindly believe everything that Michael Jackson says either. I'm a lifelong fan of Michael's since 1970, so please don't come at me with i'm starting ish stuff. I want to know why Bob was fired as well. I come to this site to seek answers when the news is slow. All this "Michael wouldn't do this, he's not like that..." My question is how do u know he wouldn't? We don't know what these people do or think behind closed doors. Therefore we shouldn't be so quick to blindly believe everything. Now back to my original point. I just heard what happened in the aftermath of his firing. I just don't know what led to the firing. Could it be some of the people working for Michael at the time spread some false info to Jackson that led him to fire Jones? You have to look at the same unscrupelous people that were working for MJ at the time to fully understand. I say this because Jones was hired originally by Berry Gordy decades ago to do press for Motown artists and he later began to work exclusively for Jackson. So he has a history of good work. Where did it go wrong? I have a theory.
 
tupacavelli4life said:
I don't get this universal trust and distrust of people we don't know. I don't know if Bob Jones was an evil man. I don't blindly believe everything that Michael Jackson says either. I'm a lifelong fan of Michael's since 1970, so please don't come at me with i'm starting ish stuff. I want to know why Bob was fired as well. I come to this site to seek answers when the news is slow. All this "Michael wouldn't do this, he's not like that..." My question is how do u know he wouldn't? We don't know what these people do or think behind closed doors. Therefore we shouldn't be so quick to blindly believe everything. Now back to my original point. I just heard what happened in the aftermath of his firing. I just don't know what led to the firing. Could it be some of the people working for Michael at the time spread some false info to Jackson that led him to fire Jones? You have to look at the same unscrupelous people that were working for MJ at the time to fully understand. I say this because Jones was hired originally by Berry Gordy decades ago to do press for Motown artists and he later began to work exclusively for Jackson. So he has a history of good work. Where did it go wrong? I have a theory.
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You are asking the wrong people. None of us work for Michael Jackson. If you want a different answer, then go to a haters paradise. People here are speculating and they will speculate in mJ's favour because they are MJ's supporters. BoB Jones is an MJ hater, he wrote a book to show it, now if you want answers in favour of Bob Jones You came to the wrong board. Don't attack the people for the answers you get. You must have known that they would not have given you the answers you wanted, so why ask them then:)
 
tupacavelli4life said:
I don't get this universal trust and distrust of people we don't know. I don't know if Bob Jones was an evil man. I don't blindly believe everything that Michael Jackson says either. I'm a lifelong fan of Michael's since 1970, so please don't come at me with i'm starting ish stuff. I want to know why Bob was fired as well. I come to this site to seek answers when the news is slow. All this "Michael wouldn't do this, he's not like that..." My question is how do u know he wouldn't? We don't know what these people do or think behind closed doors. Therefore we shouldn't be so quick to blindly believe everything. Now back to my original point. I just heard what happened in the aftermath of his firing. I just don't know what led to the firing. Could it be some of the people working for Michael at the time spread some false info to Jackson that led him to fire Jones? You have to look at the same unscrupelous people that were working for MJ at the time to fully understand. I say this because Jones was hired originally by Berry Gordy decades ago to do press for Motown artists and he later began to work exclusively for Jackson. So he has a history of good work. Where did it go wrong? I have a theory.
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I hear what your saying, i.e. we don't KNOW these people, BUT here are somethings to ponder:

Bob Jones MIGHT have done good work in the beginning, but he showed his true colors at the end. And, in my opinion, therein lies the problem with Mr. Jones.

If he has a history of good work, I find it more then interesting that NOBODY in the industry wants anything to do with him.

Folks in the industry who hold positions like Mr. Jones had, switch up ALL the time, but they don't write tell-all books. You can work with a bunch of people, off and on, in that type of position. You start working with one person and after a while it doesn't work anymore, so you go on and work with the next person. It happens all the time. Bob Jones is NOT the first P.R. person to be fired by a high profile artist. He could very well be working with some other artist, had he played his cards right.

It is also my "opinion" that Bob Jones and Stacy Brown had already begun working on that tell-all book BEFORE Mr. Jones got fired.
 
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