Who says Rupert Murdoch isn't a sweetheart?According to the Associated Press (by way of ESPN), the hue and cry over If I Did It, Here's How It Happened has led News Corp. chairman to cancel both the book and TV special planned for next week. In both the book and special, O.J. Simpson would describe how "in theory" he would have killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in 1994. "In theory," by the way, is Latin for "I got away with it and now I can unburden myself for profit, suckers."
Anyway, after a dozen FOX afilliates refused to air the special, and Borders stores said all profits on the book would go to charity, and the Goldman and Brown families went public with their extreme displeasure over the project, Murdoch did the right thing and put the kibosh on the plan. "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," he said. "We are sorry for any pain that his has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."
Can the arm-twisitng-generated apology from Judith Regan, who published the book under her imprint and was going to host the special, be far behind?
[Thanks to Tim UF for the head's up.]
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11-20-2006 @ 4:26PM
Sam said...
Joel, can you promise me that this will be the last OJ-related thing this blog ever runs? Please? I will bake you brownies (okay, they'll be from a Duncan Hines box, but still ... )
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11-20-2006 @ 5:04PM
David said...
Damn I wanted the book to come out because teachers who going to use it in their pyscho class.
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11-20-2006 @ 7:28PM
JW said...
Someone has common sense in TV land.
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11-20-2006 @ 6:06PM
MacGuffin said...
I wanted to see that creep confess--or at least hypothetically confess--to these crimes.
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11-20-2006 @ 6:12PM
Omar said...
so am i the only person who was insanely excited for this interview? i was devistated that its going to be pulled. i need this to get leaked to youtube.
and to be fair, i could have wrote a book on how i "could have killed nicole" because all the info is basically public now. unless hes guilty (im not sure) he doesn't know anything we dont and unless hes guilty AND stupid he wouldn't say anything we dont know. this is shock value at its best/worst and nothing more.
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11-21-2006 @ 9:11AM
Gordy said...
Hmm, didn't he get 2.5 million up front? That's gotta be the easiest money he ever made. Now he can pay the Brown/Goldman families.
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11-28-2006 @ 11:09AM
Becky Diamond said...
He should be hung. No honor should be due him. His children should not be allowed to be with him.
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