The Bear Minimum

Today I am going to write of Mr Michael Jackson, and the media frenzy that has occurred since his passing. It is sad to me, that there has been such a staunch out-poring of love and respect for Michael, now that he isn’t here to witness it. One hopes that those who believe he is nonetheless able to see what effect his passing has had on the world, are right.

There have been two autopsies so far, but still Joe Jackson is unsatisfied and has requested a third. With no evidence to substantiate his claim, he has nonetheless been going from one media group to another, claiming that Michael was deliberately poisoned. My personal interpretation of Joe’s behaviour is that he is just trying to remain in the spot-light for as long as he can, shamelessly promoting his new record label. Multiple times in the past week, when Joe was asked about his son, he has not said much on Michael, no, instead he has turned the talk to his ‘great news’, which is of course that he has a new record label. I think, dear readers, that this man is most assuredly a schmuck!

Along with that particular issue, there has also been a great deal of media coverage on Jackson’s will, as he has made his mother executor of his estate and the legal guardian of this three children. Joe Jackson, thankfully, has been entirely omitted from the will. As has Jackson’s ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, who has declared that she will be filing for custody of the two children she bore Jackson. Of course, there is also the ongoing saga that is the memorial service, and all the media rigmarole that has surrounded it. Thankfully all seemed to go off without too much trouble.

My personal favourite from the rumour mill has to be the ’sighting’ of Jackson’s ghost at the Neverland Ranch, on an interview with Larry King on CNN, along with the barrage of fake celebrity death reports that this event has, for one reason or another, sparked. As for the ghost, it seems pretty clear to me that it is a shadow of a person on a balcony on the floor above that caused that ‘apparition’ to be seen, and the rumours of celebrity deaths just seems odd.