Compel Discovery Communications to Cancel This Program
As many Michael Jackson advocates already know, the Discovery Channel is planning to air a program, on a Discovery channel to be determined, that uses the Los Angeles County Coroner's Report to recreate Michael's autopsy on an anatomically correct synthetic cadaver. We don't know if the synthetic cadaver will be altered to resemble Michael.
This program is scheduled to air on January 13 and three dates thereafter in the United Kingdom. Inquiries directed to Discovery Communications indicate there are no plans at this time to air the program in the United States. This doesn't mean it won't eventually be aired in the U.S.; only that it's not currently scheduled to be aired in the U.S.
It's been announced within Michael Jackson's online community of advocates that the Discovery Channel is actually OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.
This is not true.
OWN, acronym for Oprah Winfrey Network, is a future U.S. specialty channel, set to launch on January 1, 2011, owned jointly by Discovery Communications and Harpo Productions. Winfrey's network will replace only the Discovery Health Channel, which has fallen victim to low viewer ratings, on cable and satellite feeds. The use of the word "network" to describe Winfrey's new endeavor is a misnomer. She's taking over the Discovery Health Channel only with programming of her own choosing.
The Oprah Winfrey Network is only one of 28 separate brands--NOT the owner of the Discovery Channel or Discovery Communications. At these links are several press releases that explain the breadth of OWN's program choices.
http://tinyurl.com/healthchannel
http://press.discovery.com/us/own/press-releases
Now that we're clear on who owns what, Michael Jackson advocates are encouraged to inform Discovery Communications that it's unacceptable to exploit the popularity of the world's most well known entertainer merely to draw eyeballs to one of Discovery's programs. The best person to write to is:
David Zaslav
President and CEO
Discovery Communications
1 Discovery Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910
According to Discovery Communications' website, Zaslav "sets the strategy and oversees all operations of the world's number one nonfiction media company."
http://tinyurl.com/263znmh
You're encouraged to also write to the forensic pathologist who will host the program.
Michael D. Hunter, M.D.
3737 Frankford Avenue
Panama City, Florida 32405
theforensicdoc@gmail.com
The Executors of the Estate of Michael Jackson have been informed of this development. Word is they're exploring ways to compel Discovery Communications to cancel this program. Perhaps they'll succeed by appealing to David Zaslav's sense of basic human decency. Perhaps there are legal bases on which to proceed.
In the meantime, please take out a sheet of paper and write a snail mail letter (we don't have an email address) to David Zaslav. Time is of the essence. Please do it today. Thank you.
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I agree for them to show the Documentary but not the Autopsy. I still have the image of Michael lying on that strecher,first being taken to the Hospital and then the medical examiner's office via Ambulence and Helicopter.I can see that pic of The EMT's working on him and then when they transported Him covered with a White Sheet covering his whole body. All we want is Justice. TMZ is now reporting of another Doctor might be involved.Well, If Conrad the Murderer Murray( or whatever his name is:doh
