Former MTV VJ Steve Isaacs on upsetting Michael Jackson, getting canned

Happy 30th birthday MTV! To mark the occasion, here's an outtake from my forthcoming book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, in which former MTV VJ Steve Isaacs explains why he got canned.

"I got fired from MTV because there were things I clearly was not supporting on the air, and they didn't like that. I got in trouble with Michael Jackson one time, around when Dangerous had just come out. He was just super-weird, he wasn't like actual pedophile weird at that point—there...