Controversial Photo of Michael Jackson on Cover of OK! Magazine
Celebrity magazines are known to fight and pay big bucks for exclusive photos. This week, OK! Magazine reportedly paid $500,000 for what they are calling “the last” photo of Michael Jackson, according to MSNBC.
The photo is stirring all sorts of controversy. It shows Jackson unconscious with a neck brace on a stretcher. He could even possibly be dead.
Besides the obvious morbid nature of the photo, the real reason this is becoming a big deal is because OK! seemed to be the only magazine to go this route. Take a swing by the newsstand and you’re bound to see a slew of respectful photography on the covers of everything from Time, to Newsweek to Entertainment Weekly, which is releasing four commemorative covers.
A spokesman for OK! Magazine explained the magazine’s decision to MSNBC: “The cover represents an event in the history of an extremely entertaining and controversial figure and is sure to provoke some emotion and questions from readers and fans about the circumstances. The news often does.”
Is the photo distasteful? Yes. Gruesome? Yes. But should people be outraged? Probably not. The simple fact that we are writing about it and discussing it proves that paying the money and running the photo is justified. Journalism, however we look at it, is a business and OK! made a wise – even if it’s slightly wrong – business decision.
MORBID CREATURE (PIG) WHY DO WE WANT TO SEE A DYING MAN! CANT WE JUST REMEMBER HIM AS THE LEGEND WHO DID ‘THRILLER’ AND ALL HIS OTHER SONGS. ALSO I THINK CONSPIRACY THEROIES ON HIS CHILDREN AND OTHER PETTY THINGS SHOULD BE STOPPED UNTIL FACTS ARE KNOWN! R.I.P MICHEAL JACKSON!
I agree to bekie because his children might see this picture, think about the three kids. I think what Ok did was disgusting and viel and people should show him some respect, RIP Michael Jackson
I agree girls how would you like a picture of you dead shown to the world. Leave him to rest !!!
why should we expect anything any different. They want to sell and make money and they will that is the sad part. And yes he was a legend but he was also a person who paid out millions to cover for child molestation! lets not forget that!
I dont believe he did. If i was someone who got raped or w.e no matter how much money i was offered me and my family would not take it as who would want a kiddy toucher out on the streets or free you;d never feel safe, so unless the family doesn’t really care about others then I dont believe Michael Jackson did anything wrong.
R.I.P. MJ