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Post by teancum79 on Nov 17, 2006 21:48:09 GMT -5
I caught a radio program driving back from work today. OJ Simpson has a new book. The just of it is "If I did it I would have done it like this." Regardless of "IF" he really did he is trying to cash in on murder. Thoughts?
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Post by dianaholberg on Nov 18, 2006 11:49:19 GMT -5
I feel the same way you do about it. IMO, the OJ trial is when we publicly sold out our justice system. Now we have the American Idol justice system. It only makes sense that we would then buy books from those who are most highly publicized in the process.
The popular view is that everyone has to earn a living. Personally I believe that when truth and justice are not protected from the distortion of today's media it's not a "living" which has been earned.
Just another symptom of the "culture of death".
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Post by Mestemia on Nov 20, 2006 5:29:57 GMT -5
The OJ trial was a big joke. To call for an adjournment in order for the prosecuter to find a pair of gloves that fit OJ... Please! I am not really sure how to respond to this. On one hand I agree with Diana. However, on the other I find the reactions of Nicole's family rather hypocritical. They had absolutely no qualms about 'cashing in' on Nicole's death, why are they upset that OJ is following suit? On the idea of 'cashing in' on murder, it has been going on for years: JonBenet Ramsey World Trade Center Flight 93 Columbine JFK
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Post by Tara on Nov 20, 2006 15:42:49 GMT -5
Polytheist has a point. Nobody seemed to get ridiculously upset over books written about WTC or the little pageant girl or Columbine...
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Post by Mestemia on Nov 20, 2006 17:12:36 GMT -5
If anything, this big to do over his book is merely free publicity. How many people would have never known about his book had everyone kept their mouths shut?
I know I would not have. I can also honestly say that most of my family wouldn't even know about it, except all the media coverage of Nicole's Family whining about it.
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Post by dianaholberg on Nov 20, 2006 21:17:45 GMT -5
I would hardly put OJ or JonBenet Ramsey or Columbine in the same list with the JFK assassination or the WTC. The latter qualify as world events.
Perhaps closer to that league would be Waco, or Oklahoma City -- because of the tarnish they left on our "world power" status.
Only our media would rank those other items particularly noteworthy. Similar crimes happen on a regular basis, and those specific ones pale in comparison to the atrocities experienced in most countries daily. Our media has a very skewed way of presenting things.
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Post by teancum79 on Nov 21, 2006 0:27:26 GMT -5
True also making a movie or writing a book about events is different than the accused murderer writing a book from a heres how I would have done it approach.
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Post by Tara on Nov 21, 2006 11:45:31 GMT -5
Well, there have also been books written on how to make weapons and how to do much worse. His couldn't possibly be much different than those.
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Post by teancum79 on Nov 21, 2006 15:31:05 GMT -5
I see a great deal of difference between an ex army guy writing a book on how to make a better rifle and someone writing a how I got away with murder book.
There are a lot of piratical uses for guns and knives etc. even explosives have there good non violent uses.
Murder and buying your way out of prison can not be a good thing.
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Post by Mestemia on Nov 21, 2006 18:20:53 GMT -5
NEW YORK (AP) -- After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and television special "If I Did It." "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that his has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson." A dozen Fox affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the November 30 publication of the book by ReganBooks.(Watch why Fox cancelled the special Video) The publishing house is a HarperCollins imprint owned -- like the Fox network -- by News Corp. Simpson told The Associated Press in a phone interview late Monday he could not comment on the situation "until I know legally where I stand." He added, "I would like nothing better than to straighten out some things that have been mischaracterized. But I think I'm legally muzzled at this point." www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/20/oj.cancel.ap/index.html
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Post by Mestemia on Nov 21, 2006 19:57:55 GMT -5
I see a great deal of difference between an ex army guy writing a book on how to make a better rifle and someone writing a how I got away with murder book. OJ was acquitted because the prosecutor had no case against him. Anyone who watched the trial could see that OJ was not the murderer.
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Post by Tara on Nov 27, 2006 20:08:19 GMT -5
Poly, from speaking with many ppl on the subject, it seems there are quite a few ppl out there who would agree with your last statement.
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Post by calyrelf on Nov 28, 2006 10:37:31 GMT -5
The civil court based their guilty verdict on the evidence, and they did award the Goldman family millions (which they have yet to see) So, one court did convict OJ. And to be honest, I can contort my hands into a position where a snug pair of gloves don't look like they fit me. OJ did have an acting career.....and I think he used those acting lessons to the hilt. You know, I love Rosie Grier.....I think he is one of my all-time heroes. When he talked about OJ's flight from justice in that suv, he was asked if OJ ever admitted to him that he killed Nicole. Rosie refused to answer that question, saying that OJ is his friend and he wouldn't say anything against him. WHY? ? If OJ was his friend, WHY wouldn't he tell the press that OJ never admitted killing Nicole? Rosie is a good, decent, God-fearing man.....and if I had a friend that never told me he committed murder, I would have NO PROBLEM telling the press that. On the other hand, if I as a decent Christian (which he is) had a friend who DID tell me that he committed murder, I would say the exact same thing that Rosie did. JMHO
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Post by dianaholberg on Nov 28, 2006 18:29:22 GMT -5
It doesn't matter to me any longer what OJ did or didn't do -- he was equitted under criminal law and accepted his judgment under civil law. It's all water under the bridge now as far as I'm concerned... the rest is in God's hands.
But the damage done the the justice system was vast and will have a ripple effect until the day when the media is better regulated in its freedom to exploit crime to make money. There is nothing that says any case should be broadcast the way that trial was -- no matter how famous the participants and no matter how horrendous the crime.
Don't get me wrong -- I love CourtTV. But there should be limits on the exposure and the commentary and the polling and etc. etc. etc. It was outrageous.
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Post by Tara on Nov 28, 2006 18:42:40 GMT -5
I think so.
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