The priorities of local news producers are often...puzzling. Yesterday much airtime was given to the rumor...THE RUMOR...that Michael Jackson ("affectionately" nicknamed "Freakboy" by this writer) had "fathered" quadruplets with an actress without portfolio (she's supposedly registered with the Screen Actors Guild but has no reported credits.)
That any such children, if they did exist, would probably be the same kind of fair skinned, fair haired, blue eyed offspring as his other three children....the kind of offspring someone with Jackson's genes (unaffected by the late blooming skin bleaching/hair straightening/nose and lip thinning disease that he swears has done of most of the altering of his own appearance over the years) would be extremely unlikely to co-produce on such a regular basis...is really neither here nor there. If he wants to pretend these children (past, present, or future) are fruit of his loins...and if the mothers are okay with pretending likewise...there's not really much we can do about it.
(It does bring up the question of the color of the sky in Michael Jackson's world but that will undoubtedly remain one of life's unsolved mysteries so I shan't dwell on it.)
No, the real question is why is this RUMOR...since denied by MJ's camp (though, of course, they have a history of mendacity so that really doesn't mean as much as it might otherwise)...is worth so time and attention on newscasts. I guess it's because Us Magazine and the National Enquirer are such legitimate news sources and thus any story originating there cannot be ignored. Or perhaps they're just reflecting our celebrity obsessions back at us in an effort to garner every ratings point they can. Or maybe they're just lazy.
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