Michael Jackson's "This Is It" single and music video, worthy tribute, or shameless moneymaker?

The reason it will make a lot of money is because people WANT it. I think millions of fans do want this material, and knowing that it exists they would be demanding it had it not been "in the works" to release it. RE: the Spike Lee tribute video ... I have a great respect for Spike Lee, and believe he chooses his projects based on feeling like he has something to say as an artist about any given subject or genre he explores.

Like Michael, he is a Black artist who rose to fame from humble beginnings and became a prominent Voice for the hopes, challenges, and dreams of his generation.To me, this video communicates his love and respect for Michael and does not strike me as having any exploitive motive. When I watched the video, I thought it was a beautiful and very personal tribute. The message I took from it: Look at the entire life of this amazing artist--maybe for a moment that challenges the viewer to get past what he/she might have felt about him in recent years and see instead a more whole, complex, brilliantly talented individual who spent pretty much his entire life in show business.

See him as a human being. Look at the joy he brought into so many people's lives.

SHAMELESS MONEYMAKER! I think that (almost) everyone who has a 'tribute' to Michael is doing so for the money. When he was alive, no one wanted to even mention his name in a positive light.

The queen of talk shows said things about him on her show that let the world know what she thought of him. After he died, she has a 'heartfelt' tribute about him. Even his family said (horrible) things about him.

Whenever you hear the name - Michael Jackson - mentioned on the tube, it is done for a profit, nothing but profit. I have not seen 'This Is It'. I probably will one day, but, I have no plans to look at it.

There are a lot of fans who want to see more projects by him and they probably appreciate the new videos but, a lot of them came back to his side after he died.

I thinks it possible that it is both a shameless money maker and at the same time a worthy tribute. I think it was actually already in the works before he died, so that is the reason they have so much footage available so quickly, they already had planned to release it. The shameless part was that they pushed it way ahead of schedule to capitalize on the timing of the man's death just to make some extra bucks, that being said they really did lose a ton of money that they had put into the production and then having to return all the purchased tickets etc.So they did need to recoup some of that money or just go totally bankrupt themselves.

It was a worthy tribute, I learned a lot about the genius of Michael Jackson that you don't get in a staged interview, just watching him interact in that crazy way that you only see in geniuses really hit home that this man was not made by a large group of producers and handlers...he actually was the final say behind all the creative forces involved with his dancing and music and production etc. I walked away with a certain respect for this man the kind that you reserve for those quirky geniuses that you just want to leave alone and see what they come up with next.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.