Opinion

Monday, Jul 06 2009 06:17 PM

Leave Michael in peace

I was at a local restaurant on that happened to have Fox News playing on TV. The reporters were reporting on Michael Jackson's death. You would have sworn that he was a Democrat running for reelection the way they were treating him. They lambasted him in every way possible. They reported only on the negative aspects of his life and nothing to his contributions to the music world and the joy that he gave many people.

It was interesting too that when they reported on the celebrities that have had problems with prescription drugs, they did not mention Rush Limbaugh. I am too old to have been a Michael Jackson fan, but my kind, Christian parents always told me not to speak ill of the dead. Whatever happened to those values?

FRANKLIN W. ALLEN

Bakersfield

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