Kevin Roegele
Do you mind if I don't?
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Tom Cruise is the new Michael Jackson. That is, public enemy number one. It's open season on the Cruiser, and the media are leading the charge. In fact - they created it. As they always do.
Michael Jackson is undoubtedly a very strange man, but in no way is he the sick predator the media have presented him as over the years. Given that he's never come any way near normality in his entire life, and has had so much adulation and wealth and yes-men since a young age, and is incredibly naive.....it makes sense he's so odd.
The media wanted you to forget all the good he did for the world - and he's done an awful lot. They wanted you to ignore the only artist who continually put out songs about helping others and the planet (Man in the Mirror, Heal the World, Earthsong). They wanted you to forget this is one of the greatest entertainers in recorded history. And think of him as a bad guy.
But as a placard at his trial was daubed, he's smooth, but he's not a criminal.
Let's not forget, Jackson was aquitted on ALL charges. He is guilty of absolutely nothing. And the trial lasted months. Everybody was against him. Everybody was looking at every minute detail, repeatedly. And there was nothing there.
Fleet street offices around the western world must be full of un-opened champagne bottles and unused party poppers from that day. They backed off Jackson, and he wisely travelled to a place beyond the media's grasp - yes, there are such places. There are even places without Tesco.
......
Tom Cruise remains the biggest film star in the West, and yet we've convinced ourselves - we've been convinced - that everybody hates him.
The press loves a target. The press loves to build a hero and then knock them down. And once Tom Cruise starts acting the fool - even for only seconds - the media are on him like a wolves, and then vultures. Okay, he was silly jumping on the couch on Opera, but no-one would care if the media didn't give it so much coverage. The media decides who you and your colleagues are going to talk about at work the next day.
Cruise reached the pinnacle of Hollywood by, alongside his onscreen abilities, being the ultimate professional and puting in extreme ammounts of hard work. He's always appeared level-headed and mature, given the press little to criticise other than supposed 'sexual difficulties' on the set of Eyes Wide Shut.
Following the Oprah incident, the press stuck to Cruise like ****s glued to a dude. Each subsequent Cruise episode is blown out of all proportion, and the public simply excepts that Cruise is a meglomaniacal, scientology-obsessed control freak who abducted Katie Holmes into his crazy circle of million-dollar weirdness.
Because that is how the media presents him.
Forget all the good stuff he's done, forget all the money he makes for charity - well, you can't forget that because it's never reported. Forget the fact that he's never had a movie make less that $100m in the US box office charts. Forget Rain Man, The Last Samurai, the Mission Impossible trilogy, War of the Worlds, Collateral, Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky and (my favourite) Legend.
The media is telling you to hate Tom Cruise. Therefore you should hate him.
But hey, here comes Mel Gibson.
Michael Jackson is undoubtedly a very strange man, but in no way is he the sick predator the media have presented him as over the years. Given that he's never come any way near normality in his entire life, and has had so much adulation and wealth and yes-men since a young age, and is incredibly naive.....it makes sense he's so odd.
The media wanted you to forget all the good he did for the world - and he's done an awful lot. They wanted you to ignore the only artist who continually put out songs about helping others and the planet (Man in the Mirror, Heal the World, Earthsong). They wanted you to forget this is one of the greatest entertainers in recorded history. And think of him as a bad guy.
But as a placard at his trial was daubed, he's smooth, but he's not a criminal.
Let's not forget, Jackson was aquitted on ALL charges. He is guilty of absolutely nothing. And the trial lasted months. Everybody was against him. Everybody was looking at every minute detail, repeatedly. And there was nothing there.
Fleet street offices around the western world must be full of un-opened champagne bottles and unused party poppers from that day. They backed off Jackson, and he wisely travelled to a place beyond the media's grasp - yes, there are such places. There are even places without Tesco.
......
Tom Cruise remains the biggest film star in the West, and yet we've convinced ourselves - we've been convinced - that everybody hates him.
The press loves a target. The press loves to build a hero and then knock them down. And once Tom Cruise starts acting the fool - even for only seconds - the media are on him like a wolves, and then vultures. Okay, he was silly jumping on the couch on Opera, but no-one would care if the media didn't give it so much coverage. The media decides who you and your colleagues are going to talk about at work the next day.
Cruise reached the pinnacle of Hollywood by, alongside his onscreen abilities, being the ultimate professional and puting in extreme ammounts of hard work. He's always appeared level-headed and mature, given the press little to criticise other than supposed 'sexual difficulties' on the set of Eyes Wide Shut.
Following the Oprah incident, the press stuck to Cruise like ****s glued to a dude. Each subsequent Cruise episode is blown out of all proportion, and the public simply excepts that Cruise is a meglomaniacal, scientology-obsessed control freak who abducted Katie Holmes into his crazy circle of million-dollar weirdness.
Because that is how the media presents him.
Forget all the good stuff he's done, forget all the money he makes for charity - well, you can't forget that because it's never reported. Forget the fact that he's never had a movie make less that $100m in the US box office charts. Forget Rain Man, The Last Samurai, the Mission Impossible trilogy, War of the Worlds, Collateral, Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky and (my favourite) Legend.
The media is telling you to hate Tom Cruise. Therefore you should hate him.
But hey, here comes Mel Gibson.
When he decided to start running his mouth off about Scientology 24/7 and push his beliefs on people in his interviews and generally made a spectacle out of his relationship with Holmes, he kind of drew attention to himself. Firing Kingsley was the dumbest thing he's ever done. She kept him in check, quite obviously. 
