Wade Robson, who were befriended by Jackson as young boys, that he sexually abused them for years, fans of the late singer have plastered posters on London’s double-decker buses reading “Facts Don’t Lie. People Do.” The same message was on a banner unfurled by a clutch of protesters outside Channel 4’s London headquarters Wednesday.
The posters, which have a picture of Jackson with an “innocent” sign over his mouth, direct people to the mjinnocent.com campaign website, which itself provides a link to a separate crowdfunding site launched by Jackson’s nephew. Taj Jackson, who has been in the British media in recent days defending his uncle, says he is seeking funding for an “untitled Michael Jackson Documentary Series” that would “defend Michael Jackson’s name and legacy from vicious and calculated lies.” So far it has raised about $75,000 toward its goal of $777,000.
Much of the social media reaction to “Leaving Neverland” in the U.K. focused on the role of Safechuck’s and Robson’s parents and whether they should have left their children in Jackson’s care.
The BBC reported that a statue of Michael Jackson had been removed from the National Football Museum in the northern English city of Manchester. The statue had originally been commissioned by former Harrods department store owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, a friend of Jackson’s, when Al-Fayed was chairman of the Fulham soccer club.
The BBC quoted a museum spokesperson as saying that plans had been under way “for a number of months to remove the Michael Jackson statue from display as part of our ongoing plans to better represent the stories we want to tell about football [soccer]. As a result of this, the statue has now been removed.”
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/mi...and-ratings-protest-hbo-channel-4-1203158273/
https://www.mjinnocent.com/
The posters, which have a picture of Jackson with an “innocent” sign over his mouth, direct people to the mjinnocent.com campaign website, which itself provides a link to a separate crowdfunding site launched by Jackson’s nephew. Taj Jackson, who has been in the British media in recent days defending his uncle, says he is seeking funding for an “untitled Michael Jackson Documentary Series” that would “defend Michael Jackson’s name and legacy from vicious and calculated lies.” So far it has raised about $75,000 toward its goal of $777,000.
Much of the social media reaction to “Leaving Neverland” in the U.K. focused on the role of Safechuck’s and Robson’s parents and whether they should have left their children in Jackson’s care.
The BBC reported that a statue of Michael Jackson had been removed from the National Football Museum in the northern English city of Manchester. The statue had originally been commissioned by former Harrods department store owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, a friend of Jackson’s, when Al-Fayed was chairman of the Fulham soccer club.
The BBC quoted a museum spokesperson as saying that plans had been under way “for a number of months to remove the Michael Jackson statue from display as part of our ongoing plans to better represent the stories we want to tell about football [soccer]. As a result of this, the statue has now been removed.”
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/mi...and-ratings-protest-hbo-channel-4-1203158273/
https://www.mjinnocent.com/
