by Ronnie Dauber

Created on: July 24, 2009   Last Updated: November 30, 2011

Even though he has died, Michael Jackson continues to be the target of many people who never knew him yet feel qualified in judging the person of Michael Jackson. 

His death was just one more story in a series of mysterious allegations that stirred almost everyone's curiosity. And it's this inquisitive mind in all of us that gives the media world its never-ending power to continue to control our opinions.

They have been busy over the last few years with their speculations of what will be a good selling interpretation of Michael Jackson's life. They take an insight or a suggestion or even part of a truth and turn it into front-page news. Some of it is believable because it's so bizarre that it allows the readers to exercise their own hidden idiosyncrasies. Some of it is so far fetched that people mock the probability of its realty and are offended by it. And as a result, people either like Michael Jackson or they think he's eccentric.

Are people's judgments of Michael Jackson based on a personal relationship with him whereby they are qualified to make an opinion of his life? Or of his passions? Of all the people in the world keeping his superficial legacy alive, it is not the ones who knew him and who love him. It's those that live to judge and get paid for it.

In case the readers don't fully understand, news that hits the headlines and stays there brings in big bucks. Michael Jackson was a musical celebrity and the media has kept his professional life alive with its guestimations of who he was and how he lived. When his career took a quiet turn, they had to invade his private life and make that newsworthy, whether it was true or not.

So much is being written about this man, but who really knew him? He was a rock star who loved to sing and dance, and he had musical talent and inspiration that few people could ever have. He became a superficial icon in the eyes of millions of people because they were deceived into believing that they needed a hero to worship. Michael Jackson arrived at the right time, and between the media and the wannabes, he was moulded into the public eye at their discretion and he became what they wanted.

We need to stop this pathetic ball of unbelievable exposure from rolling because the things that are being said and the videos that are being shown in part, of his life and of his home, are all part of the final impression the media wants us to have of Michael Jackson. When will people realize that they will read and see what

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