I think the interviewer was trying very hard not to make his subject a cause for concern. It was also pretty obvious that his subject was a cause for concern who was not able to relate to others, his own children or the real world at all.

The excuse is made that with his background and childhood, this is not surprising. No it is not surprising but those who make this excuse feed the dangerous idea that this has created a special human being, to whom special rules apply. I saw Elizabeth Taylor introduce him on his recorded 30th anniversary show which was also screened this week, as the next best thing to the Messiah.

He is talented but this talent does not overide or excuse his basic shortcomings and the problems that less talented people do not exhibit.

He is rich but this should not be able to blind those who do get close, to the care and guidance he should be receiving fom them. Rather than their unquestioning adulation added to that which fanatical strangers need to show and which Michael Jackson is so used to feeding off, like some vampire or junkie.

He plainly thinks he is Peter Pan and will live forever, and this is generally seen as mildly amusing and not a barrier to raising his own children. Who he abuses, as plainly as his father abused him in exactly the same way (less the belt - so far). The masks?

With other visiting children he plainly becomes one of them but does not see that they do see him as a child like them or that this pretence is an abdication of responsibilty that aldulthood places upon all adults.

An identical individual behaving like this, less the wealth and private fairground, would be viewed with much suspicion by these same children and with even more by their parents.

When it came to the 'cured' child, the hand holding and the adoring head on Michaels shoulder, the interviewer was still trying not to be concerned. He was forced to become concerned when the children were placed at real risk during the tour of Germany, which Michael seemed to see as a triumphant palm waving entrance to Jerusalem. Where every concern seemed to be secondary to obtaining a fix of adulation.

The most revealing aspect of the bed sharing was that Michael Jackson, even after his wealth and his lawyers had previously saved him, was totally unaware of the implications or of the dangerous position he was openly placing himself it.

At the end, I had the impression that the interviewer was like an angler who had caught so many big fish, with so little effort, he was embarrassingly trying to push them back in the water

Michael needs help, I doubt if he will get it. I trust that his children will......