News item: The New York
Times reported that CBS “in effect” paid Michael Jackson $1 million to sit for a “60 Minutes”
interview. The report, based on an anonymous source, was vehemently
denied by the network. Poet-punster Leon Freilich offers this
commentary:
TIFFANY TRASH?
The Jackson “interview”
Has critics singing the
blues,
Wondering if CBS
Is guilty of molesting the news.