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Post by Blaque on Nov 20, 2006 16:24:04 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 Nov. 30 publication of the book by ReganBooks. The publishing house is 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.
Relatives of the victims have lashed out at the now scuttled publication and broadcast plans.
"He destroyed my son and took from my family Ron's future and life. And for that I'll hate him always and find him despicable," Fred Goldman told ABC last week.
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 bookstore chains, Borders Group Inc., said last week it would donate any profits on the book to charity.
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of murder in a case that became its own television drama. The former football star, announcer and actor was later found liable for the deaths in a lawsuit filed by the Goldman family.
Judith Regan, publisher of "If I Did It," said she considered the book to be Simpson's confession.
The television special was to air on two of the final three nights of the November sweeps, when ratings are watched closely to set local advertising rates. It has been a particularly tough fall for Fox, which has seen none of its new shows catch on and is waiting for the January bows of "American Idol" and "24."
The closest precedent for such an about-face came when CBS yanked a miniseries about Ronald Reagan from its schedule in 2003 when complaints were raised about its accuracy. The Reagan series was seen on its sister premium-cable channel, Showtime, instead.
One station manager who had said he wasn't airing the special said he was concerned that whether or not Simpson was guilty, he'd still be profiting from murders.
"I have my own moral compass and this was easy," said Bill Lamb, general manager of WDRB in Louisville.
For the publishing industry, the cancellation of "If I Did It" was an astonishing end to a story like no other. Numerous books have been withdrawn over the years because of possible plagiarism, most recently Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," but a book's removal simply for objectionable content is virtually unheard of.
Sales had been strong, but not sensational. "If I Did It" cracked the top 20 of Amazon.com last weekend, but by Monday afternoon, at the time its cancellation had been announced, the book had fallen to No. 51.
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Post by ifayomi on Nov 20, 2006 22:02:25 GMT -5
Interesting
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Post by sweetpie on Nov 20, 2006 22:25:25 GMT -5
To talk about "If I did it"... WTF? When half the country and abroad think you did it anyway? What kind of foolhardy shyt is this? OJ really needs to... ( I am gonna write as I speak it) um go seek God, I mean seriously and stop listening to them white folx. He needs to leave this whole situation alone. He has been trying for years now to capitalize on it in some way. O.J. ain't right!!! The temptation of making money off of this is causing him to make stupid moral decisions. It seems like he doesn't even care how his children would be affected by this, she still was their mother. Whether he was ticked at her or not. He has thoroughly reduced himself to being the court jester.... just as long as it pays. He just doesn't know what to do with himself. I am glad that there was enough people that had shown their disapproval for this tasteless garbage. Even white folx had to get on this bandwagon to keep it off of the air. I don't know what to say about him... but I know this, I 'm tired of him. We pulled for him back in the day even with our thoughts that he possibly could have done it but... it is time to cut that line and let them white folx have him. Had it aired I would not have watched it.
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Post by ifayomi on Nov 20, 2006 22:38:49 GMT -5
The word you are looking for is slow Shows you how slow he is, was look at who he married Ms Blaque can a get an Amen Love Osunkoya-Ifayomi
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Post by sweetpie on Nov 23, 2006 13:22:26 GMT -5
I'm sayin'...
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Post by dolphinfan on Nov 23, 2006 18:52:13 GMT -5
The only reason, they cancelled is because they couldn't get a major sponser. The Fact, that the news media, is behind this, sickens me more. I know for a FACT. That serial killers get interviewed all the time,and made famous, all the time. By the news media, but the fact that he got a BYE, 12 years ago, gets over 30 thousand a month retirement, fromt the NFL. This NEGRO should know when to count his blessings, HEED them, and DISAPPEAR. TO be Honest, I for the life of me, still can't figure why they haven't OFF HIM!!! yet?? I don't support, people like him, be it a he or she that did it, black or white. But thee AUDACITY, of Fox News..... Even tho, some of the reporters, publically denouced it. I will never watch FOX again!!! EVER. This could have been anybodys family, and yes, I have never watched any *known* murderer, who PROFITED from murder, EXCEPT, and I can't think of his name, (a Mobster) he use to work for the TEFLON DON, in NEW YORK, got paroled, went to Arizona, and got caught selling LUDES!!! to kids in ARIZONA. Now serving life in prson, with no eligebility for parole. DUM AZZ!!! Back to O.J.!!!!!!! I believe he did it and got over!! plain and simple. Money brought him freedom!!!. And if he just disappeared, all would be forgiven, except by the familys. But to be DRAGG into hypothectical topic, essentially admitting by DEFAULT, how he WOULD have killed two people Is SICK!!!!!! PERIOD. SICK for him even aggreeing to it. Sick for the COMPANYS, FOX and the Book company, for even comming up with the IDEA. The Media KEEPS this going, they know this NEGRO!! craves attention. And at every chance they get, they put his face in the NEWS, be it judging a beauty contest. Or drunk, at some strip club. I say if the media wants him, give him a show!!! and when it's cancelled for low ratings, we can all finnally say goodbye to O.J. This is a sick joke ,played on us by the media, because tragety, sells, and for white America, he's the one that got away!!!. Sorta a make up, for Emmit Tillman, by us. If this is true, they will ride this Negro until his death!!! I don't feel for OJ, because I believe he did it, and if proven wrong one day, I will apologise. But I do feel for his Children, whom I've heard suffer from different types of nervous conditions, becuase of all the storys they have heard, and that one of them has a drug and/or attitude issues going on, how bad I don't know. But back to OJ. I say, like CRACK, lets just leave him and his buyers alone. They do nothing but mess up OUR communitys, for the next two or three generations, while they(whites) shake there heads at why we can't lick the problem, knowing da -yum well you can't treat an ADDICTION OVER NIGHT, IN A WEEKs, A MONTHs, A YEAR, AND IN SOME CASES, A DECADE.
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Post by Blaque on Nov 25, 2006 10:37:39 GMT -5
The word you are looking for is slow Shows you how slow he is, was look at who he married Ms Blaque can a get an Amen Love Osunkoya-Ifayomi AMEN, brother!!!
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Post by sweetpie on Nov 25, 2006 16:57:06 GMT -5
The only reason, they cancelled is because they couldn't get a major sponser. The Fact, that the news media, is behind this, sickens me more. I know for a FACT. That serial killers get interviewed all the time,and made famous, all the time. By the news media, but the fact that he got a BYE, 12 years ago, gets over 30 thousand a month retirement, fromt the NFL. This NEGRO should know when to count his blessings, HEED them, and DISAPPEAR. TO be Honest, I for the life of me, still can't figure why they haven't OFF HIM!!! yet?? I don't support, people like him, be it a he or she that did it, black or white. But thee AUDACITY, of Fox News..... Even tho, some of the reporters, publically denouced it. I will never watch FOX again!!! EVER. This could have been anybodys family, and yes, I have never watched any *known* murderer, who PROFITED from murder, EXCEPT, and I can't think of his name, (a Mobster) he use to work for the TEFLON DON, in NEW YORK, got paroled, went to Arizona, and got caught selling LUDES!!! to kids in ARIZONA. Now serving life in prson, with no eligebility for parole. DUM AZZ!!! Back to O.J.!!!!!!! I believe he did it and got over!! plain and simple. Money brought him freedom!!!. And if he just disappeared, all would be forgiven, except by the familys. But to be DRAGG into hypothectical topic, essentially admitting by DEFAULT, how he WOULD have killed two people Is SICK!!!!!! PERIOD. SICK for him even aggreeing to it. Sick for the COMPANYS, FOX and the Book company, for even comming up with the IDEA. The Media KEEPS this going, they know this NEGRO!! craves attention. And at every chance they get, they put his face in the NEWS, be it judging a beauty contest. Or drunk, at some strip club. I say if the media wants him, give him a show!!! and when it's cancelled for low ratings, we can all finnally say goodbye to O.J. This is a sick joke ,played on us by the media, because tragety, sells, and for white America, he's the one that got away!!!. Sorta a make up, for Emmit Tillman, by us. If this is true, they will ride this Negro until his death!!! I don't feel for OJ, because I believe he did it, and if proven wrong one day, I will apologise. But I do feel for his Children, whom I've heard suffer from different types of nervous conditions, becuase of all the storys they have heard, and that one of them has a drug and/or attitude issues going on, how bad I don't know. But back to OJ. I say, like CRACK, lets just leave him and his buyers alone. They do nothing but mess up OUR communitys, for the next two or three generations, while they(whites) shake there heads at why we can't lick the problem, knowing da -yum well you can't treat an ADDICTION OVER NIGHT, IN A WEEKs, A MONTHs, A YEAR, AND IN SOME CASES, A DECADE. Damm! Finally a voice of reason! I was on the TJMS message board and they were saying everybody else capitalized on it why not him? I was saying OJ needs to get some self respect and turn this white media away and find some peace. They failed to prove that he did this and now they want to treat him like a monkey, waving a shiny object at him while he jumps and he's going for it for the money. The Goldman family are not so convinced of his innocence either but OJ lived in that world and thought he was one of them and now look at his life. His hey day and prime time is over, he just needs to salvage what self respect he has (if he has any) and keep going . At least go out like a black man should.
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Post by dolphinfan on Nov 25, 2006 17:10:29 GMT -5
The only reason, they cancelled is because they couldn't get a major sponser. The Fact, that the news media, is behind this, sickens me more. I know for a FACT. That serial killers get interviewed all the time,and made famous, all the time. By the news media, but the fact that he got a BYE, 12 years ago, gets over 30 thousand a month retirement, fromt the NFL. This NEGRO should know when to count his blessings, HEED them, and DISAPPEAR. TO be Honest, I for the life of me, still can't figure why they haven't OFF HIM!!! yet?? I don't support, people like him, be it a he or she that did it, black or white. But thee AUDACITY, of Fox News..... Even tho, some of the reporters, publically denouced it. I will never watch FOX again!!! EVER. This could have been anybodys family, and yes, I have never watched any *known* murderer, who PROFITED from murder, EXCEPT, and I can't think of his name, (a Mobster) he use to work for the TEFLON DON, in NEW YORK, got paroled, went to Arizona, and got caught selling LUDES!!! to kids in ARIZONA. Now serving life in prson, with no eligebility for parole. DUM AZZ!!! Back to O.J.!!!!!!! I believe he did it and got over!! plain and simple. Money brought him freedom!!!. And if he just disappeared, all would be forgiven, except by the familys. But to be DRAGG into hypothectical topic, essentially admitting by DEFAULT, how he WOULD have killed two people Is SICK!!!!!! PERIOD. SICK for him even aggreeing to it. Sick for the COMPANYS, FOX and the Book company, for even comming up with the IDEA. The Media KEEPS this going, they know this NEGRO!! craves attention. And at every chance they get, they put his face in the NEWS, be it judging a beauty contest. Or drunk, at some strip club. I say if the media wants him, give him a show!!! and when it's cancelled for low ratings, we can all finnally say goodbye to O.J. This is a sick joke ,played on us by the media, because tragety, sells, and for white America, he's the one that got away!!!. Sorta a make up, for Emmit Tillman, by us. If this is true, they will ride this Negro until his death!!! I don't feel for OJ, because I believe he did it, and if proven wrong one day, I will apologise. But I do feel for his Children, whom I've heard suffer from different types of nervous conditions, becuase of all the storys they have heard, and that one of them has a drug and/or attitude issues going on, how bad I don't know. But back to OJ. I say, like CRACK, lets just leave him and his buyers alone. They do nothing but mess up OUR communitys, for the next two or three generations, while they(whites) shake there heads at why we can't lick the problem, knowing da -yum well you can't treat an ADDICTION OVER NIGHT, IN A WEEKs, A MONTHs, A YEAR, AND IN SOME CASES, A DECADE. Damm! Finally a voice of reason! I was on the TJMS message board and they were saying everybody else capitalized on it why not him? I was saying OJ needs to get some self respect and turn this white media away and find some peace. They failed to prove that he did this and now they want to treat him like a monkey, waving a shiny object at him while he jumps and he's going for it for the money. The Goldman family are not so convinced of his innocence either but OJ lived in that world and thought he was one of them and now look at his life. His hey day and prime time is over, he just needs to salvage what self respect he has (if he has any) and keep going . At least go out like a black man should. I don't know why our people can't see the MOCKERY of this event. And how WE can celebrate, this Idiocracy of this, is mind blowing. White people led by the white media is gonna try this man again, until they get him. I'm paying more attention to that. Then Oj himself. The white media will not let it go, THEY WANT THERE CONVICTION.If they would spend this energy, attacking congress and the SENATE OR DUMBA in office. I wouldn't be AS mad at them.I see this attemp, as an attemp on us, plain and simple. To let us Know no matter how rich we are, we are still Niggers, and will be put back in our places, when we get out of line!!! Thank GAWD, I'm about the ISSUES!!!. I mean just the title alone..................... and he BIT!!!!!!!! The BASTARD BIT
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