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JACKSON BLASTS TV NEWS MAGS FOR AIRING GRAND JURY TESTIMONY Monday, January 31 2005 
Michael
Jackson
has
decried
recent
television
features
that
have
quoted
from
testimony
given
to
the
Grand
Jury
by
his
accusers.
Appearing
in
a
video
on
his
official
website,
www.mjjsource.com,
Jackson
called
the
quotes
cited
on
the
TV
shows,
"ugly,
malicious."
He
added,
"This
information
was
leaked
through
transcripts
in
a
grand
jury
proceeding
where
neither
my
lawyers,
nor
I,
ever
appeared.
The
information
is
disgusting
and
false."
Superior
Court
Judge
Rodney
Melville,
who
is
presiding
(more)JACKSON INTERVIEWER ASKS TO BE EXCUSED FROM TESTIFYING Thursday, January 20 2005 
Martin
Bashir,
currently
a
correspondent
for
the
ABC
news
magazine
20/20,
has
formally
asked
the
judge
who
will
preside
over
the
Michael
Jackson
child
molestation
trial
in
Santa
Maria,
CA
to
excuse
him
from
testifying.
Bashir,
a
producer
of
British
TV
documentaries
in
2003,
interviewed
Jackson
extensively
at
his
Neverland
ranch
in
Santa
Barbara
at
the
time,
along
with
the
boy
who
has
accused
the
singer
of
molestation.
In
a
statement
to
the
court,
Bashir
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Geraldo Rivera has taped an interview with Michael Jackson that will air on his At Large show on the Fox News Network Saturday. It was not clear whether Jackson sought permission from the court before granting the interview. A news release by Fox indicates that the entertainer does not directly discuss any of the child-molestation charges against him in the case that is about to be tried in Santa Maria, CA. The news release cites a list of topics discussed in the interview, including Eminem, the white rap singer who had ridiculed Jackson in a video shown on MTV last year. (One of the lines: "Come here, little kiddie, on my lap. Guess who's back with a brand new rap.") In another interview with Rivera last November, Jackson commented that the Eminem video is "not just about Michael Jackson but a pattern of disrespect that he's shown to our community."
