BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also

Subject: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 06:12 PM

Just heard the news.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 06:16 PM

Article about it here. The book publication has been cancelled as well.

O.J. Simpson book/interview ditched

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: open mike
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 07:51 PM

see the thread about boycotting the show
the public's opinions have made a choice here

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 11:04 PM

That man needs to be cancelled in a large number of ways.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: 3refs
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 11:42 PM

No doubt he had his hand in the cookie jar. Where the problem lies, is the fact that someone helped to make sure we knew he did it and they shot themselves in the foot in the process!
We all know the lengths that people will go when they want something. The secret is not to get caught!

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:01 AM

My two cents, borrowed from Willie S.:

The lady[killer] doth protest too much, methinks.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Ron Davies
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 06:56 AM

What a shame. Now he won't be able to use his theme song--and very little needed to be changed to fit the occasion. (I also understand Simpson can hardly write--much less write a book).

If I Did It

If I did it
Time and again I would try to say
All I want you to know
If I did it
Words wouldn't come in an easy way
Round in circles I'd go
Longin' to tell you but afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances pass me by
Soon you'd leave me
Off you would go in the mist of day
Never, never to know
How I did it
If I did it.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: dwditty
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 10:26 AM

Good Golly, Bruno Mali - and hallelujah, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Amos
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 10:38 AM

A foxy call by Murdoch; the proposed publication had already generated tons of publicity, which was multiplied by the conscientious cancellation, which altogether was worth tons in advertising costs, and although the book was electrifying, it is not as though it had any special redeeming social value. Hypothetical snuff porn, in effect. Ms. Regan will have been disappointed, I expect, as she was acting as the publisher and seemed to be building quite the wave, but I think Rupert was making a savvy call.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:02 PM

Seems to be some funny business re: payment. The Publisher paid a third party who then paid OJ so that the funds would not be used to pay off his civil suit. What a bunch of pigs.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:07 PM

One can only hope that karma will bring him what he deserves in this life. IMO, God will take care of it in the next.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Amos
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:17 PM

Regan said the funds were going to his children...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 02:05 PM

The news this morning said they were going to destroy some 400,000 volumes that have been printed already. I am assuming the attention paid to securing this load of shit won't be as careful as guarding something like the latest Harry Potter tome. No doubt some of this offal will ooze over to eBay as people pilfer copies and put them up for auction.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 02:09 PM

God, yes. Who wouldn't pay an outrageous sum to get hold of a copy of that incredibly valuable book? .....not....   Heh!

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 02:45 PM

What is essentially a 'how to' book should be marketed under the title 'Murder For Dummies.'

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Peace
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 02:48 PM

Wonder if Bush and Cheney got their copies yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Amos
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 03:00 PM

Nah, they figured it out all on their lonesome by consultig with Big Henry.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: autolycus
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 06:24 PM

So, the market can be bucked.






       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 08:58 PM

A rare case of sanity in an insane world!

There probably is an issue of censorship here but freedom of speech is never unconditional and OJ can confess anytime for free!

Good lord! Look at the bannar ads below!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 09:08 PM

Why doesn't he just throw all caution to the wind and publish a book called, "I Did It And I'm Glad"? On the cover he could be shown sticking out his tongue, holding his hands outspread beside his ears, and wiggling his fingers.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 11:22 PM

He can rename the book Double Jeopardy.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 06:04 PM

Speaking of which: It makes no sense for the ban against double jeopardy to be applied in the context of murder. When more evidence comes to light, including confession, why shouldn't a homicide be retried?

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 06:19 PM

Especially when he was found guilty by the Civil court.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:05 PM

Which has a different, and significantly less rigorous, standard of proof than a criminal court. There is no inconsistency between the two court outcomes.

Double jeopardy doesn't apply in cases of murder in the UK now, when new   evidence turns up that is strong enough. But a non-confessiion ("I didn't do it - but if I had done it, here is my imaginary account of how I would have done it") wouldn't count for much.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Justa Picker
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:32 PM

Nothing surprises me more than the fact that OJ is still above ground.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: SharonA
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 08:49 PM

Heard a quote from O.J. on an entertainment-news TV show today: he says he's already spent the funds he received, and that he used them to pay his bills. So much for Regan's statement that the money was going to his kids.

If there's such a thing as pure evil, O.J. is it. Wish it were possible to put him in a plastic bubble so that when he does die, the evil can't spread into the atmosphere.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Amos
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 08:53 PM

Judith Regan Is Fired After O. J. Simpson Book Furor

Judith Regan, the firebrand editor who stirred up decade-old
passions last month with her plans for a book and television
interview with O.J. Simpson, was fired on Friday by
HarperCollins, the publishing company that oversaw her book
business.

Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/business/media/15cnd-regan.html?emc=na

A

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 09:29 PM

Maybe she will think twice about whoring her talent and position again.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Alice
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 09:30 PM

It's about time. She has been pandering to the lowest levels for too long.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Peace
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 11:37 PM

"She has been pandering to the lowest levels for too long."

How can you say that about an ex National Enquirer reporter?

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Alice
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 01:40 AM

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled
From: GUEST,dax
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 05:15 PM

It amazed me after the trial how public opinion about his guilt followed racial lines. If his wife was black would he have been found guilty? If he was white and his wife black what would have been the opinion then. If he were not a sports icon would most care?
Perhaps too many innocent blacks have been condemmed without a fair trial so some see this as a payback, but do two wrongs make a right? Very subjective questions but did the system fail and why? What have we learned from this, if anything?

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 06:00 PM

Growing up Gotti--another of her projects. Yechhh.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 10:03 PM

Everything and everyone the crime and the trial have touched has been poisoned by it.

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Alice
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 11:58 AM

LA Times is reporting that Regan made an "offensive" phone call before she was fired.

---quote LA Times, Dec 17, 2006---------

... Senior executives at News Corp. said Saturday that although Regan was let go not because of the controversy over either the O.J. Simpson project or another contentious book, a forthcoming fictional "reimagining" of Mickey Mantle's life that had drawn advance criticism for its salacious content, both incidents contributed to her downfall at the company.......

.... The last straw, however, came Friday afternoon, when Regan, working in her office in Los Angeles, blew up on the phone at a lawyer from HarperCollins in New York who had been helping the publisher handle problems with the Mantle book. Regan was dismissed for cause shortly after that phone call, according to a high-level source...

--end quote--

Subject: RE: BS: Fox cancels OJ interview - book cancelled also
From: Alice
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 12:01 PM

She will probably move on to pander from some other publishing source.... from the same article, "...Silverberg predicted that Regan, who has chalked up major successes in the publishing world — promoting national bestsellers by Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh, as well as Jenna Jameson's "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" — would continue to find success in new ventures...."