http://www.zimbio.com/Michael+…aten+Publicist+Over+Unity
Kurze Zusammenfassung:
Michaels Brüder sind sauer auf einen früheren Freund und Publizisten, Arthur Phoenix.
Der Publizist sagt, es geht nur um's Geld.
Lt. seinem Pressebericht hatte er nicht seine persönliche Meinung kund getan, sondern es war seine professionelle Meinung: Die Jacksons waren vor ihrem Konzert so viele Jahre nicht mehr aktiv. Er schrieb, ich sah bzw. fühlte nicht, dass sie fähig wären, das zu tun, was sie früher getan hatten. Ich sah sie nicht an der Spitze, so wie damals die Jackson 5. Tito rief ihn erbost an und fragte, wie er so etwas rausbringen konnte. Während des Telefonates schrie Jermaine im Hintergrund und wollte mit Phoenix sprechen. Als Jermaine den Hörer bekam, sagte er zu ihm, du bist kein schwarzer Mann. Und Phoenix sagte zu ihm, das letzte Mal, als in in den Spiegel sah, war ich schwarz. Was meinst du? Jermaine antwortete, Phoenix wäre ein guter Freund, wie Familie. Wie könne er den Brüdern so etwas antun? Phoenix meinte zu Jermaine, dass er ihnen nicht weh tun wollte. Es wäre nur seine professionelle Meinung gewesen.
(Meine Meinung dazu: Da kann Jermaine mal sehen, wie das ist, wenn man in der Öffentlichkeit "zur Sau" gemacht wird. Dabei hatte Phoenix ja recht, im Gegensatz zu Jermaine, der Michael ja früher in der Öffentilchkeit des Öfteren grundlos angegriffen hat. Tja Jermaine ... so fühlt sich das an! )
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Publicist says it's all about money.
*As infighting among the Jacksons take center stage, now comes word a couple of the brothers are upset over a recent press release put out by a former friend and publicist.
Despite promoting the Jackson brothers’ Unity 2012 tour, the release openly questioned whether the outing would be a success as well as whether the group could incite the same frenzy they experienced in past decades. According to Arthur Phoenix, simply known as “Phoenix,” the view expressed was not a personal attack on his clients, but strictly a professional opinion.
“I looked at the Jacksons from being absent from the music industry for so many years. I did not see or feel that they were capable of doing what they can do like they used to. I did not see the Jacksons being on top like the Jackson Five or the Jacksons used to be,” the PR consultant and author explained to EURweb’s Lee Bailey.
Phoenix’s view of the Jacksons resulted in a heated phone conversation from two furious members of the celebrated clan.
“When the press release was out in the public I received a phone call and that call was from the Jacksons. The one who took the initiative to call me first when I answered the phone was Tito Jackson,” he revealed. “Tito Jackson called me up because he was upset about the press release and he was angry that I put the press release out. He started to use profanity and bad words over the phone while I was conversing with him. During the time that we were speaking, Jermaine was yelling in the background and he wanted to get on the phone and talk with me. He handed the phone to Jermaine and Jermaine got on the phone and his words to me was ‘You are not a Black man.’”
“And I said, ‘The last time I looked in the mirror I was a Black man. What do you mean by that?’ His words after that was ‘This is Why all niggas are *****ed up because how can you do this to us if you claim to be our friend and someone like family to us? This is Why Black people can’t stick together because they’re so busy taking one another down’” he continued. “I had no intention ever to take them down or hurt them. My job was speaking about my opinion on a professional level and a professional level only.
Jermaine, Tito, Jackie and Phoenix