Deja Vu-Jackson Media Manipulation

After all the years of watching the tabloids manipulate the stories regarding Michael Jackson it would be expected that we in the MJGlobal family would be intelligent enough to see it when the very same guile happens to his daughter. What happened today was a sorry spectacle and hopefully by highlighting it, it won’t be happening again.

A snippet of the interview Paris gave during her taping of the Ellen show to be shown Thursday, Dec 15th, was posted and BAM ! Deja Vu – A Jackson got targeted. Several of the tabloids took the words of Paris Jackson and wrote fictional articles by slicing, dicing and sparsing her word to make it appear as if she was ridiculing and disrespecting her father. Nothing could have been further from the truth but some people began immediate vitriolic attacks on this 13 year old. An appalling spectacle arose, as she was called names and brutally castigated repeatedly on twitter timelines.

The media manipulation of facts to create a sensational story is nothing new but certainly unexpected was the knee-jerk reaction by some within the MJ community.  The word “fan” will not be used because the behavior exhibited today  goes against every precept of Michael’s message of love he ever taught us, and fans, they were not.

These people who called his child hurtful names, can not actually believe that the man they claim to love would condone their taunts and evil demonstration against his own progeny. Surely, people who call themselves fans of Michael Jackson, would have more of an appreciation of what he went through himself with the media dissecting, twisting and bastardizing every action he took and every word he spoke.  Surely, people who call themselves fans of Michael Jackson would not behave in such a vicious manner. Surely.

MJJNews wrote a beautiful explanation of what Paris actually said and how the various media sources twisted her words. It’s imperative that this be shared in every blog across the MJGlobal family. We are deeply grateful to MJJNews for granting us permission to post her article here in blue.

Michael Jackson’s daughter recently appeared in The Ellen Show where she was interviewed by Ellen DeGeneres. The full interview will air tomorrow (Thursday) but a first clip was shown today. In this interview, Paris is asked about wearing masks when she was younger. Let’s take a look at what she REALLY says:

Ellen: And they [people at your school] didn’t know who you were because you used to wear masks all the time.

Paris: Yes.

Ellen: And when you would wear the masks, do you remember thinking — ‘cause obviously your dad did that to protect you so nobody would know who you are and you could go out and have a regular life… But do you remember wearing the masks, going ‘This is kind of weird’?

Paris: Yeah, I’m like ‘This is stupid, why am I wearing masks?’

Ellen: Right.

Paris: But yeah, I kind of realized the older I got, like, he only tried to protect us and he explained that to us, too.

Now let’s take a look at how the media misquoted her and made her say things she never said…
Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris tells Ellen ‘I felt stupid wearing a mask’ | mirror.co.uk 

“Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris has given an interview to the Ellen show – and says she felt ‘stupid’ in the mask Michael made her and her brothers wear.”

Paris Jackson didn’t like ‘stupid’ masks | Contactmusic

“Paris Jackson admits she used to get annoyed when her father Michael would make her wear a mask when she was out in public, but later understood his intentions.”          

Paris admit’s father Michael Jackson’s attempts to hide his children’s faces with masks was ‘stupid’ | Daily Mail

“‘The masks were stupid,’ admits Paris as she discusses father Michael Jackson’s attempts to protect his children on Ellen”

“Despite ridiculing the myriad of disguises on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the teenager revealed she understood why the King Of Pop had concealed his brood.”

The Daily Mail even changed their title, but the original title of their article was:
Paris Jackson ridicules Michael’s attempts to hide his children’s faces with masks

Please spread this to show the world how the media would do anything to trash Michael Jackson. They even distort Paris’ own words to make them fit with their negative views about Michael.

ABC News in their article Paris Jackson Recalls Wearing Mask: ‘This Is Stupid’ (note again how the title is misleading) chose another strategy. Instead of embedding the video clip from the interview directly in their article and allowing people to hear what she says in context, they chose to make their own video showing only 2 snippets of the interview and have a guy talking in the video to “explain” what she says — as if people needed guidance to interpret her words —, which allows them to put a negative spin to it. This is how the ABC News guy introduces what Paris says: “In an interview that airs Thursday, Paris Jackson says that she and her brothers now live a relatively normal life, a far cry from when they were younger and Michael had them wearing masks when they go out in public.” They also cut Ellen’s question, only keeping the last part (“Do you remember wearing the masks, going ‘This is kind of weird’?”).

Please spread this to show the world how the media would do anything to trash Michael Jackson. They even distort Paris’ own words to make them fit with their negative views about Michael.

Source: http://mjjnews.tumblr.com/post/14241204044/paris-jackson-misquoted-by-the-media