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None of the three newscasts could resist replaying the mess that the 50-year-old Michael Jackson had made of his adult life. ABC's Jim Avila predicted a "huge custody battle" over his three children, even after he paid his ex-wife Debbie Rowe, the mother of two of them, "to give them up." NBC's Mike Taibbi reminded us that there had been "a long sequence of allegations" that Jackson was "a molestor of young boys." Taibbi noted that none was ever proven and that a psychiatrist testified that Jackson "does not qualify as a pedophile, just a regressed ten-year-old." ABC's Avila pointed out that Jackson paid "hush money to more than one teenage boy" yet those confidentiality agreements may now be voided by his death. CBS' Ben Tracy noted that Jackson's "penchant for the opulent and the oddball led him to the brink of financial ruin." As recently as 2005 he was $300m in debt with annual expenditures--including legal fees--exceeding his income by an unMicawberish $30m.
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