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Debunking News Reports from Unnamed Sources – MB#301 What do you do when you hear a report claiming you were somehow involved in a conversation with an alleged raging Michael Jackson complaining about someone he knows? Well if you are Michael Jackson’s father, you release a statement correcting the record. Joe Jackson released a statement though his spokesperson, Angel Howansky, denying details which were spread in an apparently false report from NY Daily News reporter Michelle Caruso. The apparently erroneous article dated Feb 7 2006 claims that a “family source” says Michael Jackson called his father “in a rage to announce he was leaving Bahrain for good”.

Panic Attack Averted, MJEOL Forums Reborn – MJEOL MiniSITE Bullet #1 FEB 6 2006 – When one door closes, another always opens. I say that after experiencing what I thought would be a massive re-installation of the MJEOL FORUMS which completely locked up on us a few days ago. First, let’s get into a mini-backstory of the MJEOL FORUMS. The evolution of the MJEOL forums, as well as the website, consisted of a number of incarnations of the site and community. If you’ve been with MJEOL long enough, you can remember when the MJEOL forums were powered with phpBB software…then Invision (ipb) software….then, after an ipb lockup, vBulletin software was the preferred choice…and then we went back to ipb. LOL! If your memory goes back long enough, you can remember the InsideTheWeb (currently ezboard) version of MJEOL. Oh snap! Ah, memories! Now fast forward up to the recent past…

Trial Review: Marie Barnes Testifies to Trust in Jackson – MB#300 JANUARY 27 2006 – MJEOL continues to review some of the details which were revealed during the Michael Jackson trial which often went under-reported or unreported. Our Trial Reviews are especially important as they continue through the midst of the James Frey (A Million Little Pieces) scandal and about it being important that the public knows how to separate truth from fiction. Being someone who had just come off of covering the Michael Jackson trial where the truth seemed to hold little value to the media and to segments of the public, I screamed at the top of our lungs to anyone who would listen after Oprah Winfrey called into Larry King’s show implying essentially that the truth didn’t matter. As her later mea culpa suggested, the truth DOES matter. There is still truth yet to be recognized concerning Jackson by an industry which concealed or outright lied about a plethora of factual information which gave context to a number of issues during the trial. With that said, we pick up with the testimony of Brett Barnes’s mother, Marie Barnes who testified on May 6 2005.