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Sky pulls Michael Jackson programme

Sky Arts has had to pull an episode of its new television series, Urban Myths. It's after the channel posted a trailer online. It featured a clip of an episode with the white actor, Joseph Fiennes, in the role of the African American singer, Michael Jackson. A petition was set up to boycott the series, and it has around 20-thousand signatures. The trailer also incensed the Jackson family.

But some people have disapproved of Sky's decision to pull the episode, suggesting it smacks of censorship. We spoke with the online editor of the Voice Newspaper, Andrea Photiou. She doesn't agree that it's a form of censorship.

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