The executors of Michael Jackson’s estate are expressing outrage over an “insensitive” television special “in shockingly bad taste” that plans to re-enact the King of Pop’s autopsy. In a letter to Discovery Communications on Wednesday, John Branca and John McClain deplored in the strongest terms the Discovery Channel’s “blind desire to exploit Michael’s death, while cynically attempting to dupe the public into believing this show will have serious medical value.”
The pair were especially angered by a European promotional advertisement for the programme that shows Jackson’s trademark sequinned glove emerging from beneath a coroner’s white draping sheet. “Discovery obviously views this as clever advertising and creative ‘branding’ for the programme... In fact, the ad is debased, sick and insensitive,” said the letter addressed to Discovery Communications president and CEO David Zaslav.
—AFP