CBS paid Jackson $1m for interview
 

WASHINGTON - CBS television paid Michael Jackson one million dollars for an interview that aired on Sunday on the ?60 Minutes? news programme, The New York Times said on Wednesday, quoting a business associate of the singer.


A spokesman for CBS denied the report.
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...and?

get paid to rape kids.

nice.

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nice leap, you wouldn't be a hysterical democrat would you?

he got paid for an interview, period.

why aren't you asking how much the parents of all the kids that were allowed to go to his house were paid?

And 60 Minutes had one of its highest rated episodes ever and certainly made a lot more selling 30 second spots than the mil they paid him.

why would i be a democrat to be against raping children? are you saying that Conservatives advocate child rape?

its business in case you are new to capitalism. they paid for a hot story that will sell. Michael is abusing childrend and profiting from it. thats ironic to some... completely normal to you.

Well it has been cheap it seems :1orglaugh

They didn't get much in return... just hokey stories about being mistreated by police. Grab me a break, will ya?

1mil... that doubles what's in his bank account from the stories of 'near bankruptcy' we heard earlier LAST year =)

I can't fathom that no one has put a bullet in this guys head yet...

If he "touched" my kid, he would be one dead fuck! But apparently the parents of the victims are more interested in getting paid off than putting away a pedophile or getting some sort of other retribution.

That bitch would have gotten a 9 iron to his fake ass face if he fucked with my kid!!! :ak47:

he didnt do fuck all to kids you fuckwits.

Huh???? :eek7

'fuck all' i've learned is an aussie term for 'nothing or not a damn thing'

I wish I could earn money that easy! Sit down, act like a freak, get a 1 Million dollar check.

If I understand you correctly - You are saying he did it...

(Correct English, a double negative means a positive):1orglaugh :1orglaugh

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Shutup - he didn't do nothing ;)

Ed Bradley let him off the hook..........a terrible Larry King like approach, lobbing those soft-balls at him for questions just because he's Michael Jackson.......

MJ claims injury from the police, even though we all saw film of him coming out of the police station waving his arms over his heads at his fans.........the arms he now claims he cannot wave due to police brutality.......

Ed Bradley undoubtedly saw this film but chose not to corner Jackson on his embellishments and lies.

Shoddy, weak, and purposely so.........did he expect a follow up interview if he went softball on MJ?


Jackson should have been cornered on all his obvious embellishments......the police "dislocating" his shoulders, yet he waved to his fans happily as he left the station, the handcuffs he said damaged his right arm yet when we see him handcuffed they are clearly on his wrists, not up on his arm several inches higher, etc etc etc

If it was say, a meat packing plant supervisor who wasn't inspecting meat properly and they had footage on it, Bradley would have crushed him.

But because it was Jackson, he got a free pass.

Bradley's reputation as a so-called tough non-compromising journalist has been damaged severely.

He traded off the ratings for one show for some personal damage. what a big wimp!

It's not like he would do the interview for free. His time is worth money and he is a hot topic. It got CBS great ratings and like KRL said made them more money in the promos they sold during the show.