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What annoys me the most is every media outlet is pretending like they always loved the guy through thick and thin when just about every media outlet out there loved to circle him like a shark in the water, called for him to lose his child (remember the baby and balcony incident ??) etc.

Bren wrote:

I'd actually forgotten all about that. I find it also quite sick that so much of the misty-eyed eulogizing and reportage seems to just barely hint at his alleged pedophilia. No, he wasn't convicted, but that doesn't mean he was innocent.

Well, since he wasn't convicted, for the media to outright call him a pedo would be libel.

Tallgeese wrote:

Bren wrote:

I'd actually forgotten all about that. I find it also quite sick that so much of the misty-eyed eulogizing and reportage seems to just barely hint at his alleged pedophilia. No, he wasn't convicted, but that doesn't mean he was innocent.

Well, since he wasn't convicted, for the media to outright call him a pedo would be libel.

And, as a public figure, he would have to show that the media acted either knowing the statement was false or in reckless disregard of the truth (first amendment and all that).  The fact he was acquitted does not mean in the eyes of the law the statement is false, it means the statement was not proven to a reasonable doubt.

There was sufficient complaints by individuals suggesting he did stuff like that to shield a newspaper/media broadcast from slander/libel.  Reckless disregard for the truth is a pretty tough standard to show.

By the way, since I brought it up, I'll say that my statement about rapists who are famous and black is the kind of thing you often hear from overt and covert racists. That ain't me. I feel the media, and the consumers of mainstream culture are actually being racist when they give these sickos a free pass, 'cause it's based on a tacit assumption that black men can't be expected to control themselves.

Are you black, Sturner?

It's a good thing if you are, 'cause sometimes the Mac|Life forums feel like an all-white sausage party.

So am I, with some Romanian Jews thrown into the family tree, just for good measure.

Here's an ethnic joke that I made up regarding the various peeps from which I am descended:

Q: What's the best thing about being Jewish and Irish?

A: You never pay retail for your liquor!

Bren wrote:

By the way, since I brought it up, I'll say that my statement about rapists who are famous and black is the kind of thing you often hear from overt and covert racists. That ain't me. I feel the media, and the consumers of mainstream culture are actually being racist when they give these sickos a free pass, 'cause it's based on a tacit assumption that black men can't be expected to control themselves.

Well if you pay attention to the media, black men are more likely to rape your wife and white men are more likely to rape your kid.
Jackson didn't start getting the pedo accusations until he turned white...