It's Friday, May 1st, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

As we think about what issues arise that demand a Christian worldview consideration, certainly there are huge geopolitical issues, war and peace, treaties,

royal visits, the nature of government, constitutional interpretation. Yeah, they're huge things.

We also know that there are pressing issues, say, on the biomedical front, assisted suicide,

abortion, you know, the transgender revolution, huge issues. Sometimes, however, it comes down to popular culture.

And today, I want us to look at one big, very revealing development in popular culture,

and that has to do with the biopic.

The movie, looking at the life of Michael Jackson, sort of looking at the life of Michael Jackson.

Jafar Jackson, who is a relative of the late

Michael Jackson, evidently does a pretty remarkable job in terms of representing the singer.

That's not the controversy about the film. The controversy about the film is the fact that the

film exists as it is and the message that it sends and what it says and what it doesn't say, what it reveals

and what it doesn't reveal.

So just to give you an example of the kind of conversation going on about the film, you have

the telegraph in London putting out a major story again saying what's interesting here is not

what's here, but what's not.

Here's the headline, quote, who's bad?

The skin tingling Michael Jackson biopic has a fatal flaw.

And the fatal flaw is what they also refer to here as the elephant in the room.

And that is the, let's just say, horrifying behavior of Michael Jackson when it came to children and in particular

young boys. Let me be clear. He wasn't convicted of a crime, although he went to trial over a crime.

He was accused by many, many, many. And even what came out in the trial and is incontrovertibly true

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