MTV Comes Clean About the "Artist of the Millennium Award"

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Michael helped build MTV and take them to new heights with his revolutionary (for their time) videos. So the hear about them pull this kind of garbage is truly disgusting and reprehensible. (especially know that the man is dead). Unfortunately, this came around the time where ridiculing Michael Jackson (for his cosmetic procedures, child molestation allegations, overall eccentric persona/lifestyle) rather than celebrating his musical talent was the in-thing to do.

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Years after denying it and making hateful jokes about it, someone at MTV is apparently trying to come clean by admitting -- in a nondirect, cowardly way -- that the late Michael Jackson did receive the "Artist of the Millennium" award in 2002.

The caption (see screenshot) underneath a picture of Michael Jackson that night reads: "Britney Spears presents Michael Jackson with the Artist of the Millennium Award at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards" (View big, full screenshot here).

If you remember, there was a big controversy as to how MTV promised to honor Jackson by presenting him with a new, special award. Jackson showed up, helping to boost their ratings, while MTV later made a mockery of the entire event.

The same night there was a controversy as to whether or not MTV actually gave Jackson an award, with some insiders saying higher-ups had MTV pull the award to teach Jackson a lesson. This was around or after the big falling out Jackson had with Sony Music.

MTV pretended like Jackson went up on stage and gave himself an award, or had a "misunderstanding" of how he was being honored that night; his birthday by the way.

But apparently nobody warned to the guys running MTV's website that the award had been yanked or that Jackson was being made a fool out of because they posted the information about the Artist of the Millennium Award on MTV's site that night. See screenshot from 2002 below:


The next year Jack Black participated in a disgusting -- and rather unfunny actually -- parody of the event where he mocked Jackson.