Current Affairs 15 Nov 2006 07:43 pm
What some people do for money
I happened across this article by happenstance. Please read it. Or if you want, read this one. The basic gist is this: OJ Simpson, who was acquitted of murder in 1994, and claimed his innocence, will be paid a boat load of money for a new book, and an interview on Fox. What’s the subject? “If I did it, this is how it happened.” Basically, he is confessing to have done it.
I always knew he did it, although I also always thought there was reasonable doubt, so I felt the verdict was correct. But to turn around and make millions of dollars off of a murder that one got away with is, well, problematic at best.
I don’t entirely fault him, of course. Because if there wasn’t a book industry, or media that knew they could make money off of this, this would have never happened. And, of course, if there weren’t people who will spend the money to buy the book, or will watch the interview, it never would happen either.
I think this is one of the most telling indictments of our current mass media culture, that a murderer who got away with it now stands to make a lot of money off of it. Someone should have simply said, “no.”
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