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Media Rumor-Mongering Against Blanket Jackson

blanket-jackson-111.jpg Earlier this week, a revolting rumor about Michael Jackson's youngest child — who is only 11 years old — was spread around the world by British tabloids. These newspapers and online publications attributed the creation of a horrific and violent animation titled "Kill Them All" to Blanket Jackson, because the name "Prince Michael II" had been credited among the creators of the work. The animation has a vengeful premise and tells the story of a boy who witnessed his father's murder at the age of twelve and, years later, sets out to destroy his father's killers. The British press drew a parallel between the story of this boy and Blanket Jackson, writing that Blanket Jackson — whose real name is Prince Michael — was seeking to punish those he considers his father's killers. The controversy prompted a New York psychologist named Carl Nelson to express concern about Blanket's psychological state and the anger expressed in the animation. The psychologist said: "He has clearly latched onto the dark belief that someone must pay for his father's death, even though Conrad Murray has already completed his sentence. Therapeutic counseling could help this young man, or if he is already receiving counseling, additional treatment could be beneficial." Dr. Murray is the doctor who killed Michael Jackson and was released after two years in prison. kill-them-all.jpg The next day, an animation production company called Morphline Pictures issued a statement to the media. The animation "Kill Them All" was produced by this company. The statement read: "We deny the rumor published by the Daily Mail and other tabloids that Prince Michael Jackson had any involvement in creating the animation. He is an innocent eleven-year-old boy whom the tabloids are trying to defame with these baseless rumors." The statement explained that the animation was created by two brothers who have adopted the professional stage name "Prince Michael II" — with absolutely no connection to the Jacksons. They also apologized to the Jackson family, and especially to Blanket, for the chaos that the two writers' names had caused. This is not the first time that British media outlets have published false stories about Michael Jackson's children. They did so repeatedly during Michael's lifetime, as a result of which Michael once took these media outlets to court. Since Michael's death, numerous rumors about his two older children have been printed in the British press, and this time it was eleven-year-old Blanket's turn. Source: eMJey.com / 4-traders