Michael Jackson scandal. (accusations of child molesting) ('Tabloid Truth' broadcast on February 15, 1994 by PBS) (Ethics on Trial: Tabloid Trash and Flash Threaten to Corrupt the American Media) (Transcript)

Nieman Reports, March, 1994

CHAPTER ONE

Narrator - The roar of the Jackson scandal began as an anonymous whisper, on a quiet morning last August, in the San Fernando valley.

DON RAY, a free-lance television reporter - I was laying in bed on a Sunday morning, dead asleep and the phone rang very early in the morning. This voice said, "A search warrant has gone down. In fact, two of them have gone down. '"And I, |Okay, like what, where? |and he said: "Neverland." I said, What, MTV, Michael Jackson? He says, "Yeah, that one. Something having to do with child molestation." That woke me up. He said: "Well, I understand they had to use a locksmith to get into some of the places there. " At this point, now I've got to find the locksmith. So I started going down this list. The...

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