 News Corp. cancels O.J. book, TV interview |
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| News Corp. cancels O.J. book, TV interview |
 Nov 20 2006, 03:15 PM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 885 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Lubbock, Texas Member No.: 12  |
Smart move on their part.
QUOTE News Corp. cancels O.J. book, TV interview
02:57 PM CST on Monday, November 20, 2006 Associated Press NEW YORK - 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 publication of the book. It was being published by ReganBooks, a HarperCollins imprint owned, like the Fox network, by News Corp. In the projects, Simpson speaks in hypothetical terms about how he would have committed the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Goldman. The industry trade publication Broadcasting & Cable editorialized against the show Monday, saying "Fox should cancel this evil sweeps stunt." One of the nation's largest superstore chains, Borders Group Inc., said last week it would donate any profits on the book to charity. |
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Nov 20 2006, 03:46 PM
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 monogamous gays & stem cells Group: Members Posts: 3,789 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 8 |
damn. i kinda wanted to see if 12 years of drama classes could produce some actual emotion on his part
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Nov 20 2006, 04:22 PM
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 Do they ignore parts of reality? Group: Moderators Posts: 2,935 Joined: 23-February 06 From: South Overton!!! Member No.: 46 |
Good, if there is a hell, I hope O.J. burns for all eternity.
-------------------- A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses... what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?
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Nov 21 2006, 12:10 AM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
i thought the book would actually be good, even for the family. i mean it's basically a confession.
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Nov 21 2006, 01:29 AM
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 Prize? Group: Members Posts: 302 Joined: 16-October 06 Member No.: 343 |
QUOTE (jonathan83 @ Nov 21 2006, 12:10 AM)  i thought the book would actually be good, even for the family. i mean it's basically a confession. but due to double jeapordy the most they could hope to pin on him would be purgery. Plus its basically just an insult to the families, mocking how the mother of his children (who almost had her head removed from the cuts) died. |
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