For Michael Jackson fan, covering trial is her duty
Michael Jackson fans who have been attending the AEG-civil trial, (Los Angeles Times)
TeamMichael777 has thousands following her on Twitter and visiting her website. She and others are go-to sources for those suspicious about the mainstream media.
She takes two buses to get to the courthouse each day and depends on donations from fans to run her website.
She has no formal training as a journalist but for tens of thousands — maybe multitudes more — she is the oracle for all things Michael.
Inside the cramped downtown Los Angeles courtroom each weekday, she furiously taps away at her iPad as the Michael Jackson wrongful-death case unfolds, taking notes for a transcript she will later post on a website crammed with court documents, autopsy reports, links to court exhibits, salutes to Jackson and an occasional plea for money. Thousands visit the website daily.
With nearly 40,000 following her "TeamMichael777" Twitter account, the 52-year-old she blasts out tweets during breaks and keeps up a running dialogue with followers.
"It was a great day to watch that roach squirm on the stand, Hes adapting many personalities, none r working cause ever1 can see he's a #LIAR," she writes as one witness is grilled.
"What a pair of MUPPETS," she snaps after two ranking music executives testify.
When a follower thanks her for the stream of information from the courtroom, she deflects it quickly. "No, dear... Its my duty with Michael and the truth! Dont say thank you! :)."
The Orange County resident, who ran a housekeeping business until she was injured in a car accident in January, climbs out of bed at 4 a.m. to begin her trek downtown. She is part of a worldwide fan community consumed with the minute details about the King of Pop, fully primed to feast on the latest legal entanglement to invoke his memory........
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For Michael Jackson fan, covering trial is her duty
Michael Jackson fans who have been attending the AEG-civil trial, (Los Angeles Times)
TeamMichael777 has thousands following her on Twitter and visiting her website. She and others are go-to sources for those suspicious about the mainstream media.
She takes two buses to get to the courthouse each day and depends on donations from fans to run her website.
She has no formal training as a journalist but for tens of thousands — maybe multitudes more — she is the oracle for all things Michael.
Inside the cramped downtown Los Angeles courtroom each weekday, she furiously taps away at her iPad as the Michael Jackson wrongful-death case unfolds, taking notes for a transcript she will later post on a website crammed with court documents, autopsy reports, links to court exhibits, salutes to Jackson and an occasional plea for money. Thousands visit the website daily.
With nearly 40,000 following her "TeamMichael777" Twitter account, the 52-year-old she blasts out tweets during breaks and keeps up a running dialogue with followers.
"It was a great day to watch that roach squirm on the stand, Hes adapting many personalities, none r working cause ever1 can see he's a #LIAR," she writes as one witness is grilled.
"What a pair of MUPPETS," she snaps after two ranking music executives testify.
When a follower thanks her for the stream of information from the courtroom, she deflects it quickly. "No, dear... Its my duty with Michael and the truth! Dont say thank you! :)."
The Orange County resident, who ran a housekeeping business until she was injured in a car accident in January, climbs out of bed at 4 a.m. to begin her trek downtown. She is part of a worldwide fan community consumed with the minute details about the King of Pop, fully primed to feast on the latest legal entanglement to invoke his memory........
For Michael Jackson fan, covering trial is her duty
Michael Jackson fans who have been attending the AEG-civil trial, (Los Angeles Times)
TeamMichael777 has thousands following her on Twitter and visiting her website. She and others are go-to sources for those suspicious about the mainstream media.
She takes two buses to get to the courthouse each day and depends on donations from fans to run her website.
She has no formal training as a journalist but for tens of thousands — maybe multitudes more — she is the oracle for all things Michael.
Inside the cramped downtown Los Angeles courtroom each weekday, she furiously taps away at her iPad as the Michael Jackson wrongful-death case unfolds, taking notes for a transcript she will later post on a website crammed with court documents, autopsy reports, links to court exhibits, salutes to Jackson and an occasional plea for money. Thousands visit the website daily.
With nearly 40,000 following her "TeamMichael777" Twitter account, the 52-year-old she blasts out tweets during breaks and keeps up a running dialogue with followers.
"It was a great day to watch that roach squirm on the stand, Hes adapting many personalities, none r working cause ever1 can see he's a #LIAR," she writes as one witness is grilled.
"What a pair of MUPPETS," she snaps after two ranking music executives testify.
When a follower thanks her for the stream of information from the courtroom, she deflects it quickly. "No, dear... Its my duty with Michael and the truth! Dont say thank you! :)."
The Orange County resident, who ran a housekeeping business until she was injured in a car accident in January, climbs out of bed at 4 a.m. to begin her trek downtown. She is part of a worldwide fan community consumed with the minute details about the King of Pop, fully primed to feast on the latest legal entanglement to invoke his memory........