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...came home for the holidays ready to spend hours delighting the senses with the exotic sights and sounds of CNN, MSNBC, maybe even a little C-SPAN, if I felt wonkish enough. And I wasn’t at all disappointed with what I got: hours on Michael Jackson??s arrest, the Kobe Bryant trial and the latest headline-grabber, an isolated case of mad cow disease in Washington. See, unlike many of my fellow pretentious intellectual types at Harvard, who read all the news that’s fit to print on a daily basis but rarely...
...written argument I might make. But the leap from Off the Wall to child molestation, with which he was recently charged for the second time in a decade, requires no minimal amount of justification. Thus far, we have little more evidence than one child’s claim against Jackson??two, if we include the 1993 accusation. Maybe it’s just me, but I find it premature for Jackson??s name to be linked with child molestation in every media outlet under the sun absent something more substantial...
...appalling.” Have we really become so sterile and mechanical that any expression of affection between adults and children must be limited to a handshake, a hug, or a quick peck on the cheek? The fact is, Loder—like most people—assumes that Jackson??s “bedding young boys” smacks of carnal intentions. That’s a logical leap that solid evidence has yet to bear...
...this day and age, one must take logical precautions around children lest they end up sharing Jackson??s fate. According to MTV reporter Jennifer Vineyard, Jackson??s former friend Uri Gellar even claims to have advised him not to invite children into his bedroom—not because he believed he was guilty of wrongdoing, but because “the behavior is unacceptable to the outside world.” Regardless of what happened in the bedroom, it’s undeniable that Jackson wouldn’t be facing these charges if he hadn?...
There are so many things to write about—the eerie tendency of major and stupid news sensations to coincide with embarrassments to the Bush administration, or the question of why, given Jackson??s weird history, people find this surprising enough to identify as “news.” But the most problematic thing in my mind stems from the associations of watching an SUV zip down a California highway as seen from a helicopter. While anchors and talking heads prayerfully whispered the word “Bronco” as if it might, repeated...