Attorney: Michael Jackson Will Surrender
Ok, first off, if Michael Jackson is the pedophile that he's accused of, I hope the Santa Barbara DA actually has the case to prove it this time and he's not just operating on his own agenda here, but that's beside the point. The warrants have been issued, Jackson's supposed to surrender today (if his attorneys and the DA can work out the details so he can avoid a "perp walk"), but none of the details of the charges against him are supposed to be revealed for something like seven weeks.
This, of course, does not spare us from speculation, leaks, news breaks or the amazing coverage last night on Channel 4, when they followed some plane that landed in Santa Barbara for over an hour (according to the reports I listened to on KROQ this morning).
But here's the best part of that… at one point, after the plane's been sitting on the ground for something like 45 minutes, they go to the news guy in the chopper to ask him if he's got any info (presumably because the newsteam in the studio had run out of adlibs to fill the time). Chopper guy goes into some details on what type of plane it is, then says "we still have no confirmation that Michael Jackson is actually on the plane, nor whether this plane actually flew out of Las Vegas." (I'm paraphrasing a bit, but that was the gist of it.) SO, an hour of local "news" time spent looking at a plane, and the sole connection to Michael Jackson that anyone can verify is that it landed at the Santa Barbara airport. Spectacular reporting there! This is going to be an amazing media circus.
(It's too bad there's a truly serious case behind the circus. It's bound to get lost in all the idiot reporting, if Channel 4's coverage is any example.)
Ok, first off, if Michael Jackson is the pedophile that he's accused of, I hope the Santa Barbara DA actually has the case to prove it this time and he's not just operating on his own agenda here, but that's beside the point. The warrants have been issued, Jackson's supposed to surrender today (if his attorneys and the DA can work out the details so he can avoid a "perp walk"), but none of the details of the charges against him are supposed to be revealed for something like seven weeks.
This, of course, does not spare us from speculation, leaks, news breaks or the amazing coverage last night on Channel 4, when they followed some plane that landed in Santa Barbara for over an hour (according to the reports I listened to on KROQ this morning).
But here's the best part of that… at one point, after the plane's been sitting on the ground for something like 45 minutes, they go to the news guy in the chopper to ask him if he's got any info (presumably because the newsteam in the studio had run out of adlibs to fill the time). Chopper guy goes into some details on what type of plane it is, then says "we still have no confirmation that Michael Jackson is actually on the plane, nor whether this plane actually flew out of Las Vegas." (I'm paraphrasing a bit, but that was the gist of it.) SO, an hour of local "news" time spent looking at a plane, and the sole connection to Michael Jackson that anyone can verify is that it landed at the Santa Barbara airport. Spectacular reporting there! This is going to be an amazing media circus.
(It's too bad there's a truly serious case behind the circus. It's bound to get lost in all the idiot reporting, if Channel 4's coverage is any example.)
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