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Why would they wait 4 years after the allegations to remove it if it really was that controversial? Disney could have shuttered it in a hot second if that were the case. Just sayin.
I think the number of people that would be excited to see it would greatly outweigh any haters that are out there.[/quote]
i don't know if you were around between 1993 and 2000, but i was, in America...and the media was considered God in this country. it still is. they just had a headline on a disney owned media site that said, 'the court of public opinion is more important than truth'.
do you know who controls the court of public opinion? the media does. and the media knows that. and they take advantage of that. and between the oprah interview and now, the vast majority of the media made it a hostile environment for anyone who is a Michael Jackson fan.(you should have seen how they were hostile about the marriage of Michael and Lisa Marie). i remember running into a buzzsaw, if i wanted to request a Michael Jackson song. i remember in 1995, that i requested 'You Are Not Alone', right in the white hot heat of it's bullet trip to number 1, and the station refused to play it. their reasoning: not the right demographic. how do u not have a demographic for a song that is number 1, with a bullet? and, furthermore, the first and last song to do it?
the moment that MJ did that interview with Oprah, the tables turned. the media started to seek out to make Michael Jackson, public enemy number 1. and now, Disney owns a lot of that media. because of the media, the allegations of 1993 kept feeling like they were happening on an everyday basis for the next four years, and right on into 2003. that's why the second accusers felt so comfortable in that atmosphere and launched THEIR attack against MJ. it is easy to believe that Disney relented, albeit, purposefully, to that media onslaught. this is the Disney that hired Martin Bashir. i understand that you love Disney. i am separating Walt Disney, the man, from Disney the conglomerate of today. and, quite frankly, i believe Walt would roll over in his grave right now, if he knew what the many faceless people have made of Disney. i think, back then, in 1987, Disney may have been in love with the Michael of 1987, just like everyone else. but i think they had a problem with the Michael of 1993 and beyond. and i think that's unfortunate that they felt that way. if they're so pro Michael, now, why would they hire Bashir? and why is it that some people can see, now, that lovers of Michael outweigh haters, but they don't seem to be able to have seen that, before June 25, of this year?
