…ichael Jackson got dramatic plastic surgery on his nose or dangled his child off a balcony, either. Those people are entertainers — and, more relevantly, not white men — and their psychiatric crises provided the press with guilt-free fun for ye…ichael Jackson got dramatic plastic surgery on his nose or dangled his child off a balcony, either. Those people are entertainers — and, more relevantly, not white men — and their psychiatric crises provided the press with guilt-free fun for years on end. But when it’s a genuinely powerful white man in the crosshairs, we flinch.