Wacko Jacko Dies at 50 - ITV Interview with Martin Bashir a few years ago.

When Michael Jackson died, all hell broke loose. People had been queueing for hours to buy tickets for his tour 'This Is It' which was to go on for many months from the end of 2009 through to 2010, his children were growing up and the tour was partly so that they could see him at work. Then, on the 25th of June 2009, radio's, televisions, newspapers and magazines immediately began spreading the shocking news. A lot of people thought badly of Michael Jackson, which I thought was rather unfair. Quite a number of years ago, Jackson agreed to do a one off TV Interview with Martin Bashir for ITV. Martin portrayed Michael as a person living in the past and someone with problems that he needed to get rid of. In one part of the filming, Micahel described himself as Peter Pan - The boy who never grew up while they were walking around his theme park; he also climbed trees and read childrens books. Martin was overall rather unfair on Michael and when they did a real sit-down interview, the questions asked were biased and unfair. Parts of the interview were also cut which made Michael look bad. I thought this was really unfair and injust. Michael was a very shy man who didn't like people to know things about him, yet he allowed one interview to happen and allowed Martin in to his life and in to the life of his children (at the time the children were younger and 'Blanket' was still a baby, therefore still masked). I thought the way Martin acted was really out of order saying all these things about Michael and the actual TV programme can be found on YouTube.
I then did a bit more research on this issue and found a great rebuttle video titled 'Take Two: The Footage You Were Never Meant To See' This really made me smile... I was glad that someone was standing up for Michael because so many bad things have been said about him, especially as the charges against him for child molestation were included in Martins betrayal of a show. I understand that people are intitled to their own opinion, but sometimes people don't realise that what they think is their opinion is actually the opinion of the media trying to sell juicy (and sometimes untrue) gossip. It's a shame that people believe everything they read in the news and it's unfortunate that the media has hypnotised so many people. People like Michael Jackson were inspirations, so I will leave you with one of his many quotes If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.