As you are all aware (hopefully) by now of the immoral, amoral & sadistic autopsy re-enactment of Michael Jackson that the Discovery Channel has planned for your viewing pleasure. Please let's come together to show our outrage over what has to be scraping the bottom of the barell. Please send letters, in calm but firm language to the below persons. I will be back later to update with email addresses and a link for petition signing.
You Ought to Know!!!
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/againstdiscovery/
Robert R. Bennett
Hilltop Investments
4240 Reece Drive
Biloxi, MS 39540
Paul Gould
Allen & Company, LLC
711 5th Ave., 9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
John S. Hendricks
Chairman
Discovery Communications
One Discovery Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Lawrence S. Kramer
Polaris Venture Partners
1000 Winter Street, Suite 3350
Waltham, MA 02451
John C. Malone
Liberty Media Corporation
12300 Liberty Blvd.
Englewood, CO 80112
Robert J. Miron
Advance/Newhouse Communications
5000 Campuswood Drive, Suite 1
East Syracuse, NY 13057
Steven A. Miron
Bright House Networks
2251 Lucien Way
Maitland, FL 32751
LaVoy Robison
The Anschutz Foundation
1727 Tremont Place
Denver, CO 80202
J. David Wargo
Wargo & Company, Inc.
437 Madison Avenue #3301
New York City, NY 10022
David M. Zaslav
President and CEO
Discovery Communications
One Discovery Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Talking points:
-We don’t televise mock autopsies on identified deceased persons for the same reason we don’t televise executions.
-All heretofore televised autopsies have been conducted on anonymous cadavers; their faces covered.
-All bodies dissected were formally donated to the Institute and the donors consented to their remains being used for educational purposes.
-Michael Jackson did not consent to his remains–virtual or otherwise–being used to satisfy the public’s curiosity for profit.
-The dead remain a part of the living community, to be honored, not used for entertainment.
-For the sensitive, this program will provoke a visceral unease, even anxiety, dread or revulsion.
-Even if the cadaver is synthetic, it is of a known person.
-Humanity is, after all, an integral part of nature, and to isolate any part of it in a clinically clean and static environment, to preserve it, is to deny the sanctity of nature: to block its course.
-A virtual autopsy of Michael Jackson is a publicity stunt designed to elicit morbid curiosity.
-In the same way are burial sites also considered deeply important, autopsies–even virtual autopsies–should be conducted in private, not on worldwide television.
-Our responsibility, given to those who grieve, is to respect that being whom they have loved, whom they still love.
-We are not isolated beings;. When we grieve, we are not just keening the loss of the one we loved, but sharing that grief with every mammal who feels loss.
-We may not be aware of what is wrong, but we feel the disconnection from the Discovery Channel that this plan foments.
-The agnostic humanist or scientific materialist determines his own worldview as rational, but I do not. Discovery Channel’s plan is irrational.
-I ask you to think more carefully about the sanctity of family, of life and memories, of stories and landscape, and how the Discovery Channel can more effectively engage with respect–which is to cancel this plan.
-What I pose here as an initial concept of respect is that willingness to hear and acknowledge the validity of another’s philosophical, spiritual or religious belief without judgment. Please do not air this show.
-The likelihood that footage of this program being duplicated and parodied on YouTube is high.
-Even simulated autopsies on fabricated aliens are repugnant.
-All human cultures recognize the sanctity of human remains and burial. The use of a synthetic corpse doesn’t negate that sanctity.
-There is intrinsic value in the peaceful non-disturbance of the deceased. The use of a synthetic corpse doesn’t negate that intrinsic value.
-Mr. Jackson’s minor children don’t care about Discovery Channel’s mission or profits. They care about their father.
http://community.mjeol.com/index.php?/topic/11481-british-tv-simulating-michaels-autopsy/page__st__20
You Ought to Know!!!
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/againstdiscovery/
Robert R. Bennett
Hilltop Investments
4240 Reece Drive
Biloxi, MS 39540
Paul Gould
Allen & Company, LLC
711 5th Ave., 9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
John S. Hendricks
Chairman
Discovery Communications
One Discovery Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Lawrence S. Kramer
Polaris Venture Partners
1000 Winter Street, Suite 3350
Waltham, MA 02451
John C. Malone
Liberty Media Corporation
12300 Liberty Blvd.
Englewood, CO 80112
Robert J. Miron
Advance/Newhouse Communications
5000 Campuswood Drive, Suite 1
East Syracuse, NY 13057
Steven A. Miron
Bright House Networks
2251 Lucien Way
Maitland, FL 32751
LaVoy Robison
The Anschutz Foundation
1727 Tremont Place
Denver, CO 80202
J. David Wargo
Wargo & Company, Inc.
437 Madison Avenue #3301
New York City, NY 10022
David M. Zaslav
President and CEO
Discovery Communications
One Discovery Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Talking points:
-We don’t televise mock autopsies on identified deceased persons for the same reason we don’t televise executions.
-All heretofore televised autopsies have been conducted on anonymous cadavers; their faces covered.
-All bodies dissected were formally donated to the Institute and the donors consented to their remains being used for educational purposes.
-Michael Jackson did not consent to his remains–virtual or otherwise–being used to satisfy the public’s curiosity for profit.
-The dead remain a part of the living community, to be honored, not used for entertainment.
-For the sensitive, this program will provoke a visceral unease, even anxiety, dread or revulsion.
-Even if the cadaver is synthetic, it is of a known person.
-Humanity is, after all, an integral part of nature, and to isolate any part of it in a clinically clean and static environment, to preserve it, is to deny the sanctity of nature: to block its course.
-A virtual autopsy of Michael Jackson is a publicity stunt designed to elicit morbid curiosity.
-In the same way are burial sites also considered deeply important, autopsies–even virtual autopsies–should be conducted in private, not on worldwide television.
-Our responsibility, given to those who grieve, is to respect that being whom they have loved, whom they still love.
-We are not isolated beings;. When we grieve, we are not just keening the loss of the one we loved, but sharing that grief with every mammal who feels loss.
-We may not be aware of what is wrong, but we feel the disconnection from the Discovery Channel that this plan foments.
-The agnostic humanist or scientific materialist determines his own worldview as rational, but I do not. Discovery Channel’s plan is irrational.
-I ask you to think more carefully about the sanctity of family, of life and memories, of stories and landscape, and how the Discovery Channel can more effectively engage with respect–which is to cancel this plan.
-What I pose here as an initial concept of respect is that willingness to hear and acknowledge the validity of another’s philosophical, spiritual or religious belief without judgment. Please do not air this show.
-The likelihood that footage of this program being duplicated and parodied on YouTube is high.
-Even simulated autopsies on fabricated aliens are repugnant.
-All human cultures recognize the sanctity of human remains and burial. The use of a synthetic corpse doesn’t negate that sanctity.
-There is intrinsic value in the peaceful non-disturbance of the deceased. The use of a synthetic corpse doesn’t negate that intrinsic value.
-Mr. Jackson’s minor children don’t care about Discovery Channel’s mission or profits. They care about their father.
http://community.mjeol.com/index.php?/topic/11481-british-tv-simulating-michaels-autopsy/page__st__20
The first number is in the US: