Martin Bashir
Martin Bashir
Martin Bashiris a British journalist who was a political commentator for MSNBC, hosting Martin Bashir, and a correspondent for NBC's Dateline NBC. He was previously an anchor for ABC's Nightline after initially gaining prominence on British television with his BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, and then his controversial fly on the wall documentary with pop singer Michael Jackson on ITV. On 4 December 2013, Bashir resigned from his position at MSNBC after he made "ill-judged comments" about the...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 January 1963
It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.
We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.
This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.
The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.
Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.
It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?
And you are, every day, relentlessly terminating that life. And you are happy with that?
I became concerned about the fact that he did appear to have relationships with children, and they were not related to him in any way.
You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
a very experienced investigative journalist. That's who he is. He's a fantastically talented reporter. And he's also a very good interviewer.
had misrepresented to Mr. Jackson what they were going to accomplish in this production.
I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.
I asked him very detailed questions. I read out to him part of the statement from the child and challenged him on the specific facts.