So, Why is “Leaving Neverland” Still On the Air?

I made a prediction in another article that came to fruition. And that prediction was that American media was returning to flat-out lying about Michael Jackson the way it did in the 90s, and that Leaving Neverland was destined for failure. Those familiar with the allegations against Michael Jackson knew Leaving Neverland was doomed before it even took off. And that’s exactly what happened. Although it was initially believed by many shocked people, it was not very long before the mountains of receipts poured in proving that the featured men were not telling the truth. International media outlets have since thrown Leaving Neverland in the trash. American media, however, is still silent. And many American media personalities like Oprah, are still pretending it’s all true.

Long before Leaving Neverland was aired, Wade Robson already had no credibility for many reasons. Any topical probe into Wade Robson would’ve stopped any reasonable person from taking him seriously. In fact, this was revealed by the judge presiding over his lawsuit case in 2017. Media outlets mainly only mentioned statutes as the reason for Robson’s lawsuit not moving forward, but the reason Robson’s lawsuit attempts were unsuccessful entailed a lot more than just statute issues.

Because many people don’t understand law, you’ll find that some writers very often misinterpret court rulings. It is commonly assumed that something disqualifying a lawsuit means it was dropped due to a technicality, and if it weren’t for the technicality it would have moved forward.  Not so at all. Credibility isn’t the one and only thing a court decides on or concerns itself with. If there is something that disqualifies a claim before even getting to the truth of the allegation, the defense is fine with that in and of itself. It doesn’t mean that the defense is deliberately trying to sabotage an allegation with technicalities because of guilt. It’s routine to capitalize on errors and shoot things down as early and efficiently as possible. Emotional opinions are irrelevant. Many articles cited statutes and the time the lawsuit was filed as problematic with the implication that those were the only reasons Wade Robson’s lawsuit was unsuccessful. There were actually several things wrong. In other words, it didn’t really matter which reasons struck it down. It was most likely going nowhere.

Wade’s Web of Lies

Wade Robson was caught in multiple lies that he tried to clean up, and the fact that both Dan Reed and Oprah didn’t know, or deliberately chose to overlook these red flags is shocking, to say the least. The information is all public.

Firstly, the timing was suspicious. Robson steadfastly defended Michael Jackson, not just as a child, but also as an adult. He even tried to get into the Michael Jackson themed Cirque Du Soleil production. Immediately after being denied a position, however, Robson suddenly “recalled” being molested. This was also after a breakdown due to money concerns. And because Robson did a sudden 360 and decided to pursue money for damages through the courts, there are now countless public documents exposing him.

Robson’s lies are numerous. For example, he was ordered to release his emails as evidence but lied to the court and said they didn’t exist. He refused by repeatedly fabricating excuses. When he finally released his emails, they revealed many of his other lies that he told under oath. His emails exposed that he had been researching other Michael Jackson allegations and was working on a memoir seemingly constructing his own allegation. That alone permanently destroyed Wade’s credibility, so he was ordered to produce copies of the book he was working on in which he detailed his alleged encounters with Michael. In doing so the court also learned that the details to Robson’s allegations changed drastically in different drafts of his book. The different versions of his stories proved yet again that he was lying about his allegations, and he was editing them carefully to make them stand up to scrutiny. Basically, he was emailing himself articles of allegations against Jackson while making edits to his own. Wade’s emails also exposed his lie that he didn’t know about the Jackson Estate and that he didn’t discuss his allegations with anyone but his lawyers when he had in fact contacted people from the estate and he had been shopping a book around. In a nutshell, his own emails proved he fabricated his story and was very interested in capitalizing off of it.

To top it all off, Robson nor Leaving Neverland ever once mentioned that he was the boyfriend of Michael Jackson’s niece during the entire timeline of his allegations. Telling the truth about his relationship with Brandi Jackson would have made it too difficult for Robson to explain his abuse claims, so he avoided even mentioning her completely. As far as credibility is concerned, Robson went up in flames long ago.

The Final “Train Wreck”

The irony and divine poetic justice to the Leaving Neverland debacle came through James Safechuck who was most likely incorporated to add credibility to the documentary, and he was the one who was exposed more sensationally. James Safechuck claimed he was abused in a room that journalist and biographer Mike Smallcombe proved did not even exist during the time of his allegations. Despite Oprah and Dan Reed’s tapdancing, there’s simply no fixing that mistake. Sure, you can be foggy on some details here and there, but Safechuck specifically insisted he was repeatedly abused in a place that did not exist until 2 years after he claimed the abuse stopped. That was not a small error; this was a 4 hour deliberated documentary, months in the making, in which he had time to watch and think about everything he said, and he still got caught in a lie. So not just one of them, both of them tanked in the credibility department.

So again, all of this begs the question, “Why is Leaving Neverland still on the air?” HBO is literally still airing a fraudulent and one-sided documentary painting one of the kindest humanitarians as a pedophile. HBO knows full well that the featured people are liars, and they are just whistling as if nothing is wrong. Many uninformed people all over the world watching it might have no idea they are watching a movie featuring 2 people literally already proven to be lying. You cannot have a one-sided documentary on the air that accuses someone of a crime based on lies and inconsistent information. How is this fair, ethical or reasonable? It isn’t. This is where things have come to in this day and age; all ethics have gone out the window when people in high places are pushing an agenda through.

Even people who believed the featured “actors” had to admit that the documentary was very one-sided, and unfair to a deceased person not alive to defend himself. This is why “documentaries” like Leaving Neverland must be opposed. It opens the chasm of a new normal of unethical productions. This kind of precedent should never have been set.

In lieu of doing the right thing and pulling the documentary for ethical reasons, instead, we’ve seen more money, promotion and celebrity validation thrown at it. When you choose to unleash an attack on someone dead or alive, the information has to check out. Any journalist with a laptop could have told you the documentary was not balanced at all, and shouldn’t be aired because of major red flags. Even someone featured in the documentary against his will, Brett Barnes, was posting information that should have stopped its airing. Wade Robson lied, again, and said Barnes was also molested by Michael Jackson and Barnes publicly denounced the claim. Leaving Neverland was falling apart at the seams before ever being released but they still rammed it through anyway.

The Oprah ‘Wind’frey Shuffle

What made matters worse was Oprah’s infamous involvement in Leaving Neverland. This is by far the worst thing Oprah has ever done in her entire career and it’s being completely blown off, mainly by Oprah. She’s trying to skip along into other projects without acknowledging what she did. What did she do? Well, Oprah is one of the most famous American media personalities in the country, and she came in to validate and capitalize off of a dishonest film with her celebrity. She helped make a big event of it all with an interview special right after the film’s airing. It’s as though Oprah assumed this was some sort of groundbreaking television moment, when it was instead perhaps an all time low in American journalism.

Even before she interviewed those men, she was being warned and rebuked by multitudes of concerned people trying to get an explanation out of her for why she was siding with a dishonest production that was attacking a beloved icon. And when the film was exposed, Oprah decided to insult the intelligence of thousands of people who once supported her with her decision to double-down and stand by the documentary, even despite it being debunked on the world stage by international journalists. Instead of apologizing for her lapse in judgement, without even fact-checking the information, she decided to explain it off instead.

Thousands of Jackson fans, including many celebrities and journalists have expressed their disappointment in Oprah. She has since appeared laughing the backlash off with Trevor Noah as “hateration”. Oprah callously behaving as though nothing was wrong and that she owed no apology to Jackson’s grieving family and fans was truly disgraceful. Oprah took no responsibility and instead used a tactic from the #metoo playbook knowing that the excuse might work with the emotionally compromised, especially other victims of sexual assault. Oprah avoided addressing the very serious flubs of not just one, but all 3 men involved with the making of this film, and instead chose to explain how victims can sometimes forget exact details. Oprah behaved as though there were no discrepancies and that Leaving Neverland was still perfectly sound. In this, Oprah is completely divorced from reality and has permanently lost thousands of people that once respected her. She has made the conscious decision to cover for people proven to be liars and in doing so, is an accomplice. It also seems as though American media has turned it’s back on the truth to side with Oprah’s version of reality. Because of Oprah and HBO’s commitment to a dishonest production, American media is not doing it’s job and calling the movie out for what it is the way international journalists have.

Societal Obligation to the Truth

Leaving Neverland is disturbing for reasons that ironically have little to do with Michael Jackson. Leaving Neverland is an eerie reminder of how society has plummeted. The documentary is still up and running with a 7.1 out of 10 stars on IMDb. Let’s be honest; it’s probably not a “real” ranking. It’s most likely a cleaned up corporate subsidized one, but still, should a debunked documentary featuring liars be normalized and legitimized like this? What are the standards for the genre? Should documentaries based on real people and events just be judged as films that don’t have to be factually accurate? Exactly what criteria has earned it a positive ranking by anyone? Can I make a documentary about how president Thomas Jefferson molested me and still hope for a positive ranking on IMDb if my lighting is excellent?

All this is also showing us how the masses who believe the film, and allegations therein, are completely unable to use logic and reason when emotionally compromised after watching something on television. This is very dangerous and socially irresponsible. It forces the question, “What else can the powers that be make a movie about that people will just believe?”

What it all boils down to is the truth. The truth must be accepted, even if we don’t like it. If the allegations against Michael Jackson were true, then his friends, family and fans would have to accept it. Even if a documentary were made revealing that truth, this would also have to be accepted. However, it isn’t the Jackson fans and supporters that need to redirect themselves to accept the truth. Long after being investigated by the FBI for a decade and cleared, and after an acquittal in a US court of law on all counts, and after each accuser gets epically exposed for lying, it’s time for Michael Jackson haters to accept that their suspicions and assumptions are not validated by the facts and evidence. And this is even despite many powers against him trying to make it so. Leaving Neverland is libelous and unsubstantiated slander. Regardless, it’s still on the air and American media has forsaken its journalistic integrity and responsibility. The truth not being accepted by much of American corporate media is that Leaving Neverland is a lie.