Weird face - something that seems to run in his family - so maybe it is a "genetic condition"
I'm surprised ITV hasn't repeated Living with Michael Jackson at least on the ITV News Channel. I assume as it's a non-UK courtcase there wouldn't be any legal restrictions!
Weird face - something that seems to run in his family - so maybe it is a "genetic condition"
Is it HECK - he now looks so bloody f-ing gross I can hardly bear to look at him! I looked better than that at the height of my chicken pox outbreak! AND I had (and still have) an NG tube in!
I'm sorry, but this isn't news. Top story. Nightly re-enactions?! It's worthy of one item down the list. Someone asked who should play Michael Jackson - Nick Pollard.
belongs on Sky One not News imo. If Elizabeth Taylor appears as a witness for Wacko , then Kay Burley could play her.
I'm sad actually what's happened to Sky News. They can be so good when they want to be but are fixated on news as entertainment.
Are Sky actually showing these reconstructions after all though? I haven't seen any mention of them.
The trial's currently in jury selection. It'll be a month to 6 weeks before it gets going properly.
It'll probably be bigger than OJ. Sky did a great job with that and Louise Woodward (although they covered hardly any other news at the time!) so hopefully they take some of the good things they did with that coverage, as well as what they did with Hutton.
Of course, this'll have a general election campaign right in the middle of it
Going to be interesting to see how much time Sky devote to it compared to the Hatfield rail crash corporate manslaughter trial - although the latter is expected to last up to twice as long.
That said, 24 aren't much better at times - do we really need to see Jackson getting in and out of his SUV several times a day accompanied by lots of screaming fans?
They're building up for another ''Camp OJ'' style media set up, graphic disclosures, getting people hooked on the trial and having us all become experts in litigation.
When the trial is in full flow, at least on Sky, you will not hear anything else.
My only hope is that if News 24 set out to be different, and cover the trial in only minor detail, explaining in the interviews with the Independent that they're too highbrow, blah blah blah... I hope that they don't - as per usual - change their minds and launch into full coverage a few weeks after everyone else, when they realise that they're losing out. I'm fully expecting it to happen, just like every other ''tabloid'' story they supposedly dislike.
Well, Sky's premium "News at Ten" has led with Jackson ahead of the Hercules crash, Hatfield trial and aftermath of the Iraqi elections.
News 24 has rightly (in my opinion) put these stories ahead of Jackson.
Yes, it's a big case...but the reconstructions just won't work.
They didn't work with Hutton and now they have the added "bonus" of being sensationalised for broadcast on a US Entertainment channel (as well as Sky One).
Whatever deal Sky think they've got into with E! in terms of providing 'fair and balanced reconstructions' will go out of the window in days....I strongly suggest that people watch Court TV if they ever get the opportunity (or listen to the Court TV segment of "Up All Night" on Radio Five Live)....a channel that started out with similar intentions of balanced reporting and has turned into sensationalised tosh.
The hype won't last 6 months without live TV pictures from inside the courtroom.... without that, the US media will have to work to create the story and keep Jackson "at the water-cooler".
My suspicion is that Sky News (and One) will fall for it hook, line and sinker.
Well, Sky's premium "News at Ten" has led with Jackson ahead of the Hercules crash, Hatfield trial and aftermath of the Iraqi elections.
News 24 has rightly (in my opinion) put these stories ahead of Jackson.
Yes, it's a big case...but the reconstructions just won't work.
They didn't work with Hutton and now they have the added "bonus" of being sensationalised for broadcast on a US Entertainment channel (as well as Sky One).
Whatever deal Sky think they've got into with E! in terms of providing 'fair and balanced reconstructions' will go out of the window in days....I strongly suggest that people watch Court TV if they ever get the opportunity (or listen to the Court TV segment of "Up All Night" on Radio Five Live)....a channel that started out with similar intentions of balanced reporting and has turned into sensationalised tosh.
The hype won't last 6 months without live TV pictures from inside the courtroom.... without that, the US media will have to work to create the story and keep Jackson "at the water-cooler".
My suspicion is that Sky News (and One) will fall for it hook, line and sinker.
How can you call them sensationalised when not one of them has even been broadcast?!
I think perhaps it might be more sensible, and people might have a little more respect for your opinions, if they were at least vaguely considered. You don't know what they're going to be like... even Sky and E! don't know what they'll be like until they actually hear what's said at the trial. Stop being so silly.
As for the lack of live coverage inside the courtroom... to a certain extent, you're right. But that's not prevented massive hype around other camera-shy courtrooms - Bulger, Soham, Jill Dando, Hutton Inquiry, etc. etc.
