Reporter comes clean about MJ trail coverage

Book Review by Donna Harris

August 29, 2007

Former anti-Jackson Fox News Channel reporter Aphrodite Jones made an interesting turnaround after the Michael Jackson trial (The People of the State of California vs. Michael Joe Jackson) and the result is her latest book, The Michael Jackson Conspiracy (iUniverse).

Thriller rises from the dead?

A quick search for “Thriller” on YouTube brings up just over 51,000 hits, most of which are amateur copycat versions of Michael Jackson’s 1983 music video of that name. The wannabe M.J.s? Teenage girls; prison inmates; a high-school marching band; a 3-year-old; and a formal wedding party — bridesmaids, groomsmen and all — to name but a few.