When I was just a kid, my cousin would fetch me at my house and invites me to join her watch Michael Jackson on a television set. Michael was always alive with his most courageous voice. Every time he dances, you can’t stop to stamp your feet to the beat of the music he produces. We as a child always enjoyed that moment, which we can hear and experience his unique talent. I personally admire him for his moonwalk moves. He is truly amazing and inspirational, he broke down the barriers of racial discrimination and proved something to himself and to the world that he can stand out the crowd as a black American. It was during my childhood years since he started his victory and glory in 1980’s. Michael was also human but I believe he never experienced his childhood with so much fun and in a way that a normal children does. I can feel that he misses childhood, being a teen ager because of his hectic schedules doing concerts and recording. Maybe, that could be the reason he loved children. I sympathized him for that. Although there were allegedly rumors that he abused his own child or other kids, I still admired him for his inspiration to poor kids who have the same ambition as his to become someone in the future and to support that famous song ‘Heal the World’
He is a legend to me and he once touched my life.
Goodbye Michael…
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02
Jul
Author: yanilea // Category:
Entertainment and Gossips,
Uncategorized
Source: MSNBC.msn.com
During his brilliant career, Michael Jackson changed not only music, but also his appearance. See how his looks evolved over the course of his fame. MJ is not only a music icon but a fashion icon as well.
All of the weekly magazines that choose to commemorate Michael Jackson on their covers will be on stands one week after the “King of Pop’s” sudden death.
Look at them collectively, and you’ll find yourself in a gruesome game of “one of these things is not like the other.”
Time Magazine rushed to press to put an elegant tribute out; Newsweek eloquently navigated the decision to send a Jackson cover to newsstands, and its planned book cover to subscribers; and People magazine did its usual pitch-perfect memorial.
And then there is OK! magazine and the reprehensible decision to pay a reported $500,000 for the “last” picture of Jackson, which shows him lying on a stretcher, possibly already dead.
OK!’s spokesperson Brian Strong says, “The cover represents an event in the history of an extremely entertaining and controversial figure and is sure to provoke some emotion and questions from readers and fans about the circumstances. The news often does.”
Provoke emotion and questions, indeed. I am angry that a) this photo exists and b) this magazine had the audacity to run it. As for questions, here’s one: How can this shameless bid for publicity (which is obviously working) be in any way justifiable?
As for the argument that the cover represents “an event in history,” yes, it does, but that’s not good enough. Every day, news organizations around the world make decisions about decency, respect and the best way to tell a story. It’s a responsibility that bears incredible weight, regardless of the perceived “weightiness” of the subject matter. Just because you have a photo — or have the dollars to throw at acquiring it — doesn’t mean it’s appropriate to run it.
The challenges in covering Jackson’s life and death become more textured by the day. But in my opinion, the question of running this photo at all, to say nothing of on the cover, was among the easiest. You just don’t do it.
The magazine answered the question as to why they ran the photo, but I have one more query before I put the subject to rest and stop giving OK! publicity for this: If the man on the stretcher was your son, brother, father or friend, would you have done the same thing?
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