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December 11th, 2010, 12:19 GMT · By Elena Gorgan
Discovery Will Air Michael Jackson Autopsy, Fans Are Outraged |
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Discovery Channel has announced it will air a special documentary in January 2011 called “Michael Jackson’s Autopsy: What Really Killed Michael Jackson,” in which they will re-enact the singer’s autopsy based on court documents and witnesses.
According to the network, which, apparently, is behind the project with Oprah’s OWN network, the show will aim to offer an insight into how the autopsy on the late King of Pop was conducted and, of course, into how he died in the summer of 2009.
Fans are now struggling to stop Discovery from airing the show, calling it an “ affront to human dignity,” and asking everyone to leave Michael alone – some things are not meant to be shown on TV, TMZ reports. A petition is already making the rounds in the MJ fan community, which will hopefully determine the big bosses at the two networks to reconsider airing the show. “Fans have already collected nearly 1,500 signatures – all demanding the network pull the plug on a special entitled ‘Michael Jackson's Autopsy’ in which MJ’s bloody autopsy is expected to be reenacted in gory detail,” TMZ notes. Indeed, as one fan has learned, for the gruesome show, producers have used an “anatomically correct synthetic cadaver” in order to re-enact the autopsy. “The fans behind the petition call the documentary ‘an affront to human dignity’ – adding, ‘This type of sensational and unscrupulous reporting can only cause harm’,” TMZ goes on to say. “We ask the directors of the Discovery Channel programming to proceed with the outright cancellation of this indecent documentary,” reads the petition. There could be more to this documentary than just an obvious quest for ratings through sensationalism of the lowest class, fans believe. Oprah’s network, which launches in the first days of the next year, is co-owned by Harpo Inc. and Discovery, which means Oprah is partly behind the show. Fans believe the Queen of Television has had it in for Michael ever since his troubled days on trial – and not even his acquittal made the grudge go away. For more on this, as well as for the steps you can take to talk Discovery out of airing the documentary, please refer here.
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| Comment #1 by: littleMJ on 11 Dec 2010, 18:37 UTC | reply to this comment | how about for those people who would like to know what really happen to MJ? Could they make such list too?? I, for one, will love to see this on air! NO offense to all the FANS out there. I, myself, is a fan of MJ! Men, your the greatest. |
| Comment #1.1 by: carol on 30 Dec 2010, 14:51 GMT | Really??you were a fan???!!!well, i am still a fan,and i find this discusting,get a life for godsake... |
| Comment #2 by: LoveLives4everKOP on 11 Dec 2010, 19:06 UTC | reply to this comment | please!! You need to leave Michael alone....Just let him rest in peace! =....( Stupid Oprah >( |
| Comment #3 by: JamLoveChange on 14 Dec 2010, 02:34 UTC | reply to this comment | To whom it may concern,
I am writing this letter because I have herd of a show that you going to air on Michael Jackson life , death and AUTOPSY. I was deeply disturbed when I herd of this. I have 2 children of my own, one who has survived cancer, thanks to Michael Jackson who has given to hospitals of children with leukemia and lymphoma my son is now in remission. My heart goes out for Michael's children especially is they see this episode. As you have seen they are on the computer because we have seen them using them. For example. and As you can see they have excess.
I also would like to include The laws of Personality rights..
Personality rights is a common or casual reference to the proper term of art "Right of Publicity". The Right of Publicity can be defined simply as the right of an individual to control the commercial use of his or her name, image, likeness or other unequivocal aspects of one's identity. It is generally considered a property right as opposed to a personal right, and as such, the validity of the Right of Publicity can survive the death of the individual (to varying degrees depending on the jurisdiction). In the United States, the Right of Publicity is a state law-based right, as opposed to Federal, and recognition of the right can vary from state to state.[1] This article examines the Right of Publicity (or equivalent rights by a different name) on a worldwide basis.
Personality rights are generally considered to consist of two types of rights: the right to publicity, or to keep one's image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation, which is similar to the use of a trademark; and the right to privacy, or the right to be left alone and not have one's personality represented publicly without permission. In common law jurisdictions, publicity rights fall into the realm of the tort of passing off. United States jurisprudence has substantially extended this right in the United States of America.
A commonly cited justification for this doctrine, from a policy standpoint, is the notion of natural rights and the idea that every individual should have a right to control how, if at all, his or her "persona" is commercialized by third parties. Usually, the motivation to engage in such commercialization is to help propel sales or visibility for a product or service, which usually amounts to some form of commercial speech (which in turn receives the lowest level of judicial scrutiny). Many commentators consider the Right of Publicity to be a property right, as opposed to a personal right.
In contrast with common law jurisdictions most civil law jurisdictions have specific civil code provisions that protect an individual's image, personal data and other generally private information. Exceptions have been carved out of these general, broad privacy rights when dealing with news and public figures. Thus, while it may violate an ordinary citizen's privacy to speak about their medical records, one is generally allowed to report on more intimate details in the lives of celebrities and politicians.
Unlike most common law jurisdictions the personality rights in civil law are generally inheritable, thus one can make a claim against someone who invades the privacy of a deceased relative if the memory of their character is besmirched by such publication.
Personality rights have developed out of common law concepts of property, trespass and intentional tort. Thus personality rights are, generally speaking, judge-made law, though there are jurisdictions where some aspects of personality rights are statutory. In some jurisdictions, publicity rights and privacy rights are not clearly distinguished, and the term publicity right is generally used. In a publicity rights case the issue to decide is whether a significant section of the public would be misled into believing (incorrectly) that a commercial arrangement had been concluded between a plaintiff and a defendant under which the plaintiff agreed to the advertising involving the image or reputation of a famous person. The actionable misrepresentation requires a suggestion that the plaintiff has endorsed or licensed the defendant's products, or somehow can exercise control over those products. This is done by way of the tort of passing off.
The meaning of the law is best illustrated by principal cases on the subject.
I hope you read this and put it into consideration.
God Bless You,
Denise
@JamLoveChange |
| Comment #4 by: Margaret on 15 Dec 2010, 03:57 UTC | reply to this comment | If Discovery Airs this program in ANY country, I will cancel my entire cable service. There is NO TV worth watching anymore. This is just the straw for me. |
| Comment #5 by: Applehead on 28 Dec 2010, 00:31 UTC | reply to this comment | Jesus doesn't anyone have their own lives? He was not a toy, or an object for the media/human amusement! He was a human being people! Why can't anyone see this? You all need to leave him and his family alone. Havn't his children gone through enough already by loosing their only parent, and whole world?! Stop this foolishness, and carry on with your own lives. Leave the Jackson family alone. |
| Comment #6 by: Manusata87 on 30 Dec 2010, 03:20 UTC | reply to this comment | This planned documentary is low, disgusting and most disgusting. I hope people turn away from Discovery in droves. I also hope that Oprah will not allow herself to get drawn into this as well. It really is in poor taste..shame on all of them!! |
| Comment #7 by: LibelFreeZone on 30 Dec 2010, 06:26 UTC | reply to this comment | It's not uncommon for simulated autopsies to be performed for educational purposes on synthetic cadavers. The distinction is that those synthetic cadavers are not identified as representing a specific person. In the case of Michael Jackson, it's clear that ethical considerations were completely steamrolled in favor of exploiting an internationally beloved superstar for ratings.
Oprah Winfrey's new network is about to be rolled out, isn't it? It's likely that in a bid to convince sponsors that Winfrey can deliver the eyeballs, some young turk in the Discovery advertising department thought this travesty of a program would be a good idea. What idiots work for Discovery? Heads should roll over this bone head decision.. |
| Comment #9 by: ciocio on 03 Jan 2011, 19:41 UTC | reply to this comment | i think is a good ideea, i just wait to see it | |
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