Randy Jackson Slams The Media

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Randy Jackson Slams The Media

Posted at 09/05/2009 by Staff 0 Comment

According to the AFP:

Michael Jackson’s brother Randy has criticized the media for filming and broadcasting footage of the King of Pop’s funeral.

“As a family, we are all aware of how Michael’s life, and his death, touched so many around the world. It is why we held a public memorial in my brother’s honor,” Randy Jackson said in a statement posted on entertainment site TMZ.com.

“I was dismayed last night and again today at the coverage I saw on television of our ceremony for Michael. We had asked the media to respect the privacy and the sanctity of this event; to give us one moment of privacy to mourn as a family out of the public spotlight,” the statement released Friday said.

He said media organizations had chosen to ignore a no-fly zone set up around Forest Lawn cemetery, even though the Jackson family had released a limited amount of footage before the funeral, hoping to avoid media scrutiny.

“Many media organizations decided to ignore our wishes. They employed helicopters that not only surreptitiously recorded our private family ceremony, but also severely disrupted it,” he said.

“I therefore ask today that media organizations airing helicopter footage of the ceremony we held for my brother immediately pull that footage from their air and refrain from airing it in the future.”

Jackson’s family held a final farewell on Friday for the legendary musician, who died June 25 of a drug overdose that coroners are treating as a homicide.