I have watched Leaving Neverland and just finished After Neverland. I think the way that both of the documentaries were done was very tasteful. I have complete compassion for both Wade and James. It was very clear to "me" they were not trying to be vindictive. I applaud them both for their truths.
Thank you
I agree.
I just want to add that Oprah should be careful what she says.
Not all moleatgion is going to "frrl good" jus scary bad and wrong
I believe the point she was attempting to make is that not all molestation involves violence. Sometimes it may be someone you love and or admire and are being groomed into believing there is nothing wrong. You may even welcome it because you do not know better. I am thinking maybe Oprah was also Molested. Quite sad
shareDid Michael Jackson ever appear on her show?
Did she ever champion MJ and his music?
I just googled this question. You try it with this question: was Michael Jackson ever on the Oprah Winfrey show. Yes, he was! I am going to watch some of them tomorrow.
shareSo, she was part of the problem?
And now she's trying to pretend that her hands are clean.
I guess for media people like her, it's easy to do complete 180s if it benefits their careers. Much harder for the lowly plebs who followed Michael Jackson and liked his music based on the recommendations of people like Oprah.
Damn! I really hate the media class.
WTH is wrong with you??
Oprah interviewed people, she interviewed MJ, along with a host of other people who interviewed him. Obviously NOT believing he was a child molester.
Oprah herself was molested as a child, so is intimately familiar with how molesters work and the topic is important to her. Until she saw LN, as with many of us, the puzzle pieces had not taken shape enough to form a picture, but then it did.
She said at the start of her show, in the course of her career she'd done over 200 shows on child molestation, but LN managed to so clearly illustrate in 4 hours what she hadn't been able to in those 200+ shows. That's well over 200 hours she devoted to it!
She's *not* part of the problem, she's part of the solution! And yet you have the nerve to criticise her, say she's pretending to have clean hands, that this was all about her career. Oh poor lowly pleb you, who didn't even know if she'd ever had him on her show, and then blame her for liking his music. Please!
I'm very close to putting you on ignore. I've been here for over 2 years now and have only 2 people on my ignore list, but you take the cake. Do you *ever* take any responsibility for yourself? You say you're for being positive, yet your threads and posts are unfailingly negative and critical, of everyone! But you want everyone to be sensitive to and understanding of you. You also apologised to me for posting political threads in General Discussion and said you'd stop, yet you're back at it again.
You're the one who is taking a very extreme line here.
Besides, you don't know anything about my own history. I experienced some abuse as a child, so please don't assume I don't care.
And yes, I didn't know whether Oprah interviewed Jackson for sure. That is why I asked Dementlegirl the question. Would you have preferred if I had made an assumption and immediately dug into Oprah without being sure of the facts (although for what it's worth, I did suspect that Oprah had in fact championed and supported Jackson when he was alive, including during the period after the first wave of accusations)?
Also, where have I attacked Oprah for liking his music? I haven't.
It's people like me who have been attacked for liking his music. I haven't been able to listen to it since the documentary.
But good for Oprah and others with presumably shallower feelings if they can.