ABC's '20/20': My Saturday-morning DVR obsession. Seriously. What's yours?

God, the new media bores me.

If anyone is interested in wanting to know the truth, like I was several weeks ago when – in shock at my reaction to Michael Jackson’s death I first started looking behind the haze of hyperbole I have been force-fed by the papers, tv networks and tabloid feeders like Smoking Gun about Michael; – I received a rude and shattering awakening. There is a reason why a depth charge of grief and anger has erupted in the hearts of millions, if not billions of people around the world – some of whom were not die-hard fans as well as those,of course, who were. I invite – no, urge anyone who wants to at least talk about possibilties,to read Mary A. Fischer’s award-winning article ‘Was Michael Jackson Framed, to listen to the public and written statements of Thomas Mesereau, read the extremely well written book by Aphrodite Jones -’The Michael Jackson Conspiracy’ and to visit thesilencedtruth website. On this website please take the time to look over the comments in the section’Remember.’ It makes for chilling reading. For seemingly unfathomable reasons,a complicated and successful extortion attempt by one man, Evan Chandler – a man who is now forcibly and legally estranged from his son, and who from copious statements from witnesses involved in the circumstances of that time has been described as a self-serving, opportunistic predator who cared little for his own son – and even less for the truth. When one looks behind the hysteria induced by countless others who put ratings and copy before a human life, you end up with more a collection of compelling questions than answers, and a more than seriously uneasy feeling of something being not quite ‘right’ about the sheer level of engineered cruelty involved.

In years to come, perhaps reasons will emerge from the rubble as to why a supernovic talent with a history of unparalleled giving and a persona of complex innocence was consistently and wilfully humiliated, tortured and stripped of his human rights for a period of over 15 years, on the basis of astonishingly non-credible accusations – and more importantly why this was actively encouraged. May I say at this point that I am not a conspiracist, I find that approach to life, depressing and ultimately limiting. But it cannot be denied that the potent, heady mix of newly syndicated, pneumatic televison and online networks all fighting for their share of white hot media glare; the lure of fantastical amounts of money and good old fashioned human greed; came together to produce one mother of a takedown. In the final analysis, it seems this was never really a story about drugs and the Beatles catalogue – but about our willingness to believe a lie.

I run and then do my errands sat am. if I have no plans, I catch up on DVR in the afternoon and on sunday mornings.. watching the last 2 weeks of medium now.