Some radio stations in Canada and the Netherlands stopped playing Michael Jackso...
LOS ANGELES - Some radio stations in Canada and the Netherlands stopped playing Michael Jackson’s music and fans bombarded Oprah Winfrey with hateful messages after the broadcast of a documentary about alleged child abuse by the late singer.
Winfrey, herself a sexual assault survivor, conducted her own follow-up interview with accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck in a special that was broadcast on Monday night in front of an audience of assault victims.“All the anger - you guys are going to get it,” she said during the interview. “You’re going to get it. I’m going to get it. We’re all going to get it.” Robson told Winfrey he had already received death threats.
The “Thriller” singer, who died in June 2009, was acquitted at a 2005 trial in California on charges of molesting a different 13-year-old boy at his Neverland ranch in California. In 1994, he settled a sexual abuse lawsuit concerning another 13 year-old boy. “We are attentive to the comments of our listeners, and the documentary released on Sunday evening created reactions,” Cogeco Media spokeswoman Christine Dicaire said in a statement. “We prefer to observe the situation by removing the songs from our stations, for the time being.”
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