10 Years without Michael Jackson, The King of Pop
The news jumped at 14:44 in Los Angeles (USA), almost midnight in Spain. TMZ , a website specializing in celebrity information, announced the death of Michael Jackson at the age of 50 after suffering cardiac arrest , an event that still thrills his millions of fans around the world.
All means we put under alert, but we opted not to pull the trigger too soon. The source , which over time has proved to be fully solvent thanks to its murky practices (pay for information), was not by then synonymous with reliability.
The web published an urgent first in which it was advanced that Jackson had suffered a cardiac arrest . We all got on the track, but we did not publish a single word until confirmations began to arrive via CNN and Los Angeles Times.
TMZ went ahead again and killed Jackson exclusively . The major media took several minutes to verify and publish it independently. A new era in entertainment journalism was born, in which TMZ was several steps ahead of the rest .
His death provoked a media earthquake as I have never lived in 11 years as a correspondent in Los Angeles , either in the medical center of UCLA where he died (flooded by curious), in the tribute that was dedicated to him at the Staples Center on July 7 (with hundreds of fans abroad) or in the trial against his personal doctor (with dozens of fans sleeping at the gates of the Court to know the resolution).
The autopsy revealed that an excessive dose of medicines with a high presence of benzodiazepine , a compound used to treat insomnia and anxiety, caused the death .
The artist's personal physician, Conrad Murray, acknowledged that, after injecting the sedatives to the artist that morning, he left the room where he was staying to answer calls.
Upon his return, he found Jackson helpless and without a pulse on the bed.
Murray was sentenced to four years in prison in 2011 for involuntary manslaughter.
Nothing, at least in the public sphere, foreshadowed that end. Just three months earlier, Jackson had announced his return to the stage for July with a farewell event consisting of 10 concerts at the O2 Arena in London (the number increased to 50 due to strong demand) which was called 'This is It' (This is all), a title of the most premonitory.
'This is It' was going to be the pinnacle of Jackson's career, his comeback in style after years of absence on stage , a decline in which he was plunged after being accused of pedophilia and brought to trial in 2005 .
He was declared innocent, although his public image was never fully recovered and his eccentricities -related to his appearance and attitudes to his own children- and economic problems generated more headlines than his art -his last studio album, "Invincible", was released in 2001-.
Jackson wanted to caress his audience once again by looking back on his stratospheric career , forged before the relentless gaze of his father, Joe, whom the artist came to accuse of physical and emotional abuse .
That turbulent relationship was the source of his devotion to children, seen as pure love for his fellow fans and the main source of criticism for his biggest detractors. In fact, the recent documentary 'Leaving Neverland', premiered at the Sundance festival, tells the alleged sexual abuse of Jackson to two minors .
"It's another morbid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to take advantage of and take advantage of Michael Jackson," his heirs said in a statement.
The controversy, ten years later, continues to surround him . And their three children (Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket) grow up knowing that they will never find more relief and accommodation than that luminous and incomparable musical legacy that still thrills millions of people .
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| 10 Years without Michael Jackson |
All means we put under alert, but we opted not to pull the trigger too soon. The source , which over time has proved to be fully solvent thanks to its murky practices (pay for information), was not by then synonymous with reliability.
The web published an urgent first in which it was advanced that Jackson had suffered a cardiac arrest . We all got on the track, but we did not publish a single word until confirmations began to arrive via CNN and Los Angeles Times.
TMZ went ahead again and killed Jackson exclusively . The major media took several minutes to verify and publish it independently. A new era in entertainment journalism was born, in which TMZ was several steps ahead of the rest .
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| 10 Years without Michael Jackson |
The death of Michael Jackson
The great and eccentric Jackson died on June 25, 2009 due to an overdose of anesthetics in his rented mansion near Bel Air .His death provoked a media earthquake as I have never lived in 11 years as a correspondent in Los Angeles , either in the medical center of UCLA where he died (flooded by curious), in the tribute that was dedicated to him at the Staples Center on July 7 (with hundreds of fans abroad) or in the trial against his personal doctor (with dozens of fans sleeping at the gates of the Court to know the resolution).
The autopsy revealed that an excessive dose of medicines with a high presence of benzodiazepine , a compound used to treat insomnia and anxiety, caused the death .
The artist's personal physician, Conrad Murray, acknowledged that, after injecting the sedatives to the artist that morning, he left the room where he was staying to answer calls.
Upon his return, he found Jackson helpless and without a pulse on the bed.
Murray was sentenced to four years in prison in 2011 for involuntary manslaughter.
Nothing, at least in the public sphere, foreshadowed that end. Just three months earlier, Jackson had announced his return to the stage for July with a farewell event consisting of 10 concerts at the O2 Arena in London (the number increased to 50 due to strong demand) which was called 'This is It' (This is all), a title of the most premonitory.
'This is It' was going to be the pinnacle of Jackson's career, his comeback in style after years of absence on stage , a decline in which he was plunged after being accused of pedophilia and brought to trial in 2005 .
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| 10 Years without Michael Jackson |
Jackson wanted to caress his audience once again by looking back on his stratospheric career , forged before the relentless gaze of his father, Joe, whom the artist came to accuse of physical and emotional abuse .
That turbulent relationship was the source of his devotion to children, seen as pure love for his fellow fans and the main source of criticism for his biggest detractors. In fact, the recent documentary 'Leaving Neverland', premiered at the Sundance festival, tells the alleged sexual abuse of Jackson to two minors .
"It's another morbid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to take advantage of and take advantage of Michael Jackson," his heirs said in a statement.
The controversy, ten years later, continues to surround him . And their three children (Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket) grow up knowing that they will never find more relief and accommodation than that luminous and incomparable musical legacy that still thrills millions of people .