Readers mount backlash against blogger Perez Hilton for his initial posting on Michael Jackson

By AP
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Perez Hilton risks backlash for Jackson post

NEW YORK — Just days after his feud with the Black Eyed Peas, Perez Hilton has found himself on the defensive again, this time for a posting on his Web site about Michael Jackson.

After the first reports about Jackson’s failing health, Hilton wrote that he doubted Jackson had gone into cardiac arrest. In a post that has since been removed from PerezHilton.com, the celebrity blogger speculated that Jackson was pulling a stunt to get out of his upcoming concerts in London.

Hilton’s skepticism, of course, proved unfounded — and many have called for a boycott of the blogger. Hundreds of users on Twitter have urged others to “unfollow” Hilton on the microblogging service. Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy was among the celebrities who chastised Hilton.

Hilton (real name: Mario Lavandeira) didn’t return e-mails requesting comment.

He did, though, tweet many times about the situation, claiming that he was owning up to his mistake and that he was “genuinely feeling sorry that he died and sorry for his kids.”

On Thursday, Hilton apologized for using a gay slur during a nightclub altercation Monday with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am. The altercation resulted in the band’s tour manager being charged with assault for allegedly punching Hilton.

Hilton apologized after the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation pressed him to apologize.

On the Net:

www.perezhilton.com

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June 27, 2009: 3:31 pm

on my blog I have a post entitled “Perez Hilton Gets More than Black Eye Over Michael Jackson Attack” - pretty much sums up Perez’s rapid downfall from media darling to petty, whiny blogger that nobody wants to deal with. His entire blog at this point is comments of people calling him out. His advertising is withering away.

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