(29-4-2010)
Aphrodite Jones' "investigative report" on Michael Jackson turns out to be the admiring, near-reverential portrait Jackson once hoped to get from Martin Bashir.
Bashir is the British journalist Jackson let into his life after he was attacked by child-abuse allegations in the 1990s.
The tacit understanding was that Bashir would use his unprecedented access to show the world Jackson was a kind person who loved children and would never harm them.
Instead, Bashir famously decided during the filming that he believed there really was something troubling about Jackson's relationship with kids, and his 2003 TV documentary fed the tabloid fire, instead of quenching it.
Jones, who covered Jackson's 2005 child-molestation trial for Fox News, says Thursday that she was also among those who believed Jackson was guilty.
Not anymore.
Jones uses this hour to rip Bashir and everyone else who ever insinuated that Jackson's interest in children was anything other than loving.
She doesn't stop with simply defending Jackson's reputation. She charges that Bashir, the prosecution and the media in general might as well have put a gun to Jackson's head because she plants his death in June 2009 squarely at their feet.
Specifically, she and several of her interview subjects say, the cloud from these allegations was the main reason Jackson had trouble sleeping, which is what started him on the cycle of pills that would eventually kill him.
The show airs Thursday night on the Investigative Discovery Channel (ID) at 10:00pm.
Source: MJFC / NY Daily News
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