HBO’s Leaving Neverland documentary has put a spotlight on Michael Jackson’s child sexual abuse allegations once again. In the wake of the series, several radio stations have reportedly pulled the King Of Pop’s music from rotation.
According to CNN, radio stations in New Zealand and Canada have already enacted the ban.
“Michael Jackson isn’t currently on any MediaWorks Radio stations’ playlists,” Leon Wratt, the company’s director for radio, said in a statement. “This is a reflection of our audiences and their preferences — it is our job to ensure our radio stations are playing the music people want to hear.”
Competitor NZME followed suit. NZME entertainment director Dean Buchanan told the New Zealand Herald, “NZME station playlists change from week to week and right now Michael Jackson does not feature on them.”
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A spokesman for Radio NZ, a publicly-funded broadcaster, said they won’t completely ban Jackson’s music but would only play Jackson if it was “part of a news story or to provide color around a commentary piece.”
Leaving Neverland centers on the accusations of choreographer Wade Robson and James Safechuck who both accuse the pop legend of sexually abusing them when they were kids. The Michael Jackson Estate is pushing back against the series and calling it a “public lynching.”
Robson and Safechuck previously testified in support of Jackson but evidently changed their stories. Jackson’s sex abuse case later filed by Robson was dismissed in 2017.
The 10-year anniversary of Jackson’s passing is inching closer. The pop star died on June 25, 2009.
King Of Pop 4 Ever
King of poop, pedophiles and propofol.
Are you so simple you can’t understand seperating music from the (generally fucked up) people that make it, also somehow we are talking about this years later like people didn’t know this shit while he was living, goddamn metoo metoo pick me ass schoolchildren lol over 3 quarters of the population are sensitive internet lifer crybabies that need the drama these days get a life, peace
Two guys, in court, under oath, said he didn’t do it. Now they are grown and say he did it. Can they be put in jail for lying on the stand? What’s worse is MJ can’t defend himself…
Statue of limitation
You really don’t get much do you? You sound so pathetic.
Fucking disgusting, the 2 dickheads in the documentary defended MJ for over 10 years, under oath too. While MJ was alive he helped the, financially but now he’s dead and they’re in debt (100% fact) they’re trying to capitalism off a dead mans legacy. More fucking Jussie Smollets who should be tossed in fucking jail.
I can see you heading to a jail cell in the future.
All i can say to you my brother is watch the movie and alot of your statements will no longer make sense to you. If youre trollin youre trollin but if you wanna know why, watch it.
You are probably one of those dudes that watches those Youtube Illuminati videos and believe all that shit. Simple ass mofo. Bottom line is these dudes have no credibility.
These dudes should be talking to the man in the mirror.
People are so sensitive these days. Metoo movement, racism, peta, vegans and people who are just offended about everything. Grow a fucking back bone people!!
This must be the times of I’ll sue you, I’m going to bring up crimes from 20yrs ago and I’m offended about anything someone says era.
I’m surprised these Me Too hypocrites don’t go after Henry VIII and dig up his bones as revenge. These bitches are crazy.
This is the America y’all subscribe too?
New Zealand and Canada aren’t in America. Dumbass
Canada is in North America
Which is not in America. You never read a map?
Nope only your foreigners love pedophiles.
Streisand effect coming in 3,2,1…..
Let’s hope if you ever have children no circumstance allows you to let your kids spend night after night in the bedroom of another grown man. Wouldn’t like to see your kids be in a position to prove inappropriate behaviour behind closed doors. But if it did happen, would love to see the mental progression and change in your kids if they had to come to the reality of what happened as they entered adulthood. Put your children on the stand at an age when they understand absolutely nothing about the world. Then put them back on the stand in their 20s to see how they handle that situation again when they’re just discovering who they are personally. And then again when they’re adults with kids of their own and their whole perspective on life has changed.
Shut yo dumb ass up fool
it is our job to ensure our radio stations are playing the music people want to hear.”
Since when
click bait ass headline
never fails
Finally some good news. Fuck all pedos. And fuck this overrated bitch MJ.
Your daddy and uncle must of hurt you. Poor little John
Tell me one thing he invented or was ahead of his time in. Nothing. He was a pedophile skeleton look alike with okay songs.
HAHA. Learn your musical history.
Mj overrated. Lol. Was a musical genius.
Hahahaha yea…that’ll show’em, take his music off radio that nobody listens to anymore anyway. So these 2 defended MJ for years and allowed for additional kids to be molested that never would’ve been if they were just the strong heroes that they are now 10years after the guy died. They sound like accomplices to me if their story is true.
You keep repeating your rabid self with different names. You aren’t hiding well deranged lunatic.
Dude is dead, and was never convicted of a crime. Yeah, let’s remove all o Mozart’s music.
Illumithotti season has arrived. Let the industry purge begin.
It don’t fuckin matter. He lived his life,made hundreds of millions of dollars and fans and now resting in peace with God healing his soul. You can’t erase the 80s n 90s Michael music n images from your brain. Ever.
I want to know how this shit is even on the air. Lost a lot of respect for HBO airing this shit, but I guess Netflix is eating their ass alive on programming so they had to do something. How do you base a documentary around two dudes who have reversed 10 years of defending dude in courts and shit while getting financial support, but now after the estate isn’t here for their shit, they decided to say no, was molested. GFOH. That sounds a lot like fuck shit and extortion to me.
I feel the same way about this shit. No doubt Michael grew up to be weird as fuck and acted like such. But I don’t feel like it’s the same with him and R.Kelly. There’s hard evidence on Kelly and nothing really on Michael except his bizarre actions. Why wait until damn near 10 years after his death, to recant your sworn testimony? Shit don’t add up to me.
Social justice is all good until it starts biting black icons in the arse eh?
Radio? What about Spotify? Still done a couple of billion streams there.
It’s funny how everyone wants to react like this is completely new. The whole world knew already. This isn’t the first time they did a documentary about it.
Same thing with R Kelly. Nobody watch Boondocks? We knew about him nearly 20 years ago, but everyone wants to be shocked for appearances.
This is nothing new, lies have always been made about the dead as they no longer can defend themselves. Like with the Prophet Muhammad so many lies were made about hum after he died to make out he was some monster when he was actually the complete opposite. Humans are some of the biggest deceivers and liars on Earth. quranix.org
Khaybar
All of these accusations at the same time is nothing more than a planned attack. The powers that be are trying to make the black man the face of abuse, pedophilia, and homosexuality. We know who the real face of those things are…
Homosexuals are trying to get people to forget about Mike….
Micheal Jackson doesn’t need to be on a playlist. He broke barriers for all races, his music healed lands and peoples lives, he broke barriers that were humanly impossible. NO ONE WILL EVER DETHRONE HIM!!!! The irony is you still play all of the white artists that stole songs from Black Artist, copyrights, publishing, images, etc. Get a life and know that this is bigger than Black and White (pun intended) because EVIL is limitless and your actions are indeed evil right both historically and probably forever.
You’re right, stealing publishing rights is basically the same thing as molesting kids. It’s hard to find words that could accurately describe how fucking stupid someone would have to be to think this.
“Got to be startin’ somethin’, I said you gotta be startin’ somethin”
It’s funny what you guys delete and what you keep…Fk the biased media reporting one side of the story to suit their narrative. Due process is gone.
I hope they put down the Catholic Church in the same way
When the police raided Michaels home they found among other weird shit, books with pictures naked children and pornography with children’s faces replaced on the adults. I grew up listening to MJ but I can’t defend him, that evidence alone proves he was a pedo
FOH no they didnt you idiot. if they did they would of had no choice but to take his ass to court and most definitely lock him up just like any other pedo caught with child porn.
Look it up retard, the info from the police is free to the public. And he got away with it because the book is somehow classified as “art” or some bullshit.
Just checked the article and sources. You’re still wrong, the material he had containing children was innocent, non sexualized, and not romanticized in any context. And he had a porn collection all of ADULT WOMEN.
Fuck RKelly, Fuck Bill Cosby, leave MJ alone.
Don’t believe shit you read from headlines. So much of what you’ve read about MJ is Bullshit.
He slept with children….what sane grown man does that? Riddle me that????
Wade Robson and that Safechuck are both known liars, who ask for money now.
go and check their background stories and u will see.
Robson got rejected for working on some MJ projects, between 2010-2015.
now hes taking revenge for that.
MJ is innocent. 100%.
Its easy to separate the man from the music with Michael. Unlike R. Kelly, who wrote shit like Age Ain’t Nuthin But a Number.
Its easy to separate the man from the music with Michael. Unlike R. Kelly, who wrote shit like Age Ain’t Nuthin But a Number.
When is the Harvey Weinstein documentary coming out, why all the black men being attacked? Their are perverts in every race, expose them all. When is Louis C.K. movie gonna drop?
Why is this about race now? You trying to make him the victim because hes black? What about the poor kids he molested
So are we treating the catholic church the same??? the have TONS of pedophiles… No shit, its all documented, for real!!
So lets BAN catholics and christians, it would make the would a better place!!
in the famous words of Bill Maher, if you ain’t living the life of Jesus, then you are just auditing!!
Let’s all get aboard with the same train!!
That’s pretty ignorant to say. Blame the priest not the religion. No one saying ban the whole music industry. Just the scum bag kid touchers music
Bravo ?. His voice was Creepy High pitch anyway… just like his BUTTHEAD FACE!
Yo u crackas are sum else fucking devil’s sheesh
Yo u fuckin crackas are devils like frfr to the point where it’s not funny like dam let the man rip dam devils
Fuck y’all judging mj like u ain’t got paedophiles living in Your houses how many kids have you all fucked and go away wid it ever body is worth being prosecuted we all do wrong things, Ok fo crying out loud has Micheal jackson never done anything right before leaave him olone t rest in peace I love his musics, so rise above hates he’s th king of pop and the world knows dat, he remains de greatest stage performer ever liveth
bcoz he’s dead and defendsless u start critisizing him I think u should back off els u will join mj where he is back off