What kind of a bizzaro world have I fallen into where Michael Jackson is the moderate voice of reason in the music industry.

For those of you too lazy to click that link, here's a choice quote:

"I am speechless about the idea of putting music fans in jail for downloading music. It is wrong to download, but the answer cannot be jail," Jackson said in a statement released Monday.

Jackson goes on to make some very salient points that most music executives seem to be completely ignorant of, viz. the solution to the 'problem' fileshareing is not litigation, which is a greed-driven disrespect of the very music fans who pad the wallets of artists and executives alike. Don't bite the hand that feeds you, and in the entertainment industry, the hand that feeds you is the fans.

Now let's talk about media bias. While Michael Jackson is not the figure he once was, a statement like this should make more news than this; as it is, you couldn't even find this write up on CNN without doing some text-based searching. Meanwhile, this is an issue which directly affects 60 million consumers, and all you ever hear from the media is "piracy" and "theft"-- neither one of which is an applicable term for 'copyright violation.' Not that you'll ever hear that point of view from any news source that is owned by a media company. In a related bizzaro note, pops to the House for overwhelmingly saying "dude, what are you smoking" to the FCC's laize-faire consolidation rules. Let's see if it takes.