O.J. Simpson says BOO and for weeks later nothing else happens in the world. I happen to be a news junkie. I flip from one 24 hour news station to the next, except FoxNoise. I listen to talk radio while in the car and I write about news here. But everytime O.J. Simpson opens his mouth or does whatever, that's it, the shows over folks, nothing to see or hear here but O.J.
It's worst than your worst Paris Hilton nightmare. You can't get away from it. Crawls will show up on the screen during the Andy Griffth show. Standing in line (cueing for my European friends) at a grocery store will put you face to face with row after row of O.J.
The world suddenly stands still, no more events happen anywhere because you have to see the same file footage of this idiot over and over again. People have to drag out the arguements, "he did it! No I didn't! He did it"! And what makes it worse is the Black Man that got away, the man too stupid to understand this and simply fade into that good night, loves it! He eats it up. He knew damn good and well that his book would bring about a wave of press. He knew damn good and well that walking in that room with armed thugs would get him arrested. He's stupid, but not that stupid.
No, the media is far more stupid than he is, by leaps and bounds. O.J. is an actor without a stage, a king without a castle and a runningback with no field to run on. So everytime he gets the urge, the need, he does something stupid and the media shuts down the world for him.
Sure they may get him on this one. He could end up with 60 plus years, but so what. I argue that in some fashion that's what he wants deep down inside.
He'll never have an even halfway normal life on the outside, so if they put him behind bars, he'll be a king with a castle, an actor with a stage and runningback with a field. Why, how?
Inmates and gaurds will treat him like a king, he'll have free run to run things and the media will give him an audience to preform to from his stage.
Just like the media likes to go to prison's to give mass murders hour long specials so they can talk about their feelings, you can bet your last dollar every media outlet on the planet will be granted interviews with the idiot. He'll probably even confess. What can they do about it now, wuld be his rational.
I hate this human being, and I was brought up to not hate anyone. That's not working out so well, but it really isn't working where this idiot concerned. And the media reaction to him is pathectic.
That's it, I have no more to say on the matter.
Question? Would we be in Iraq right now if the lead up to the war got as much media attention as this one stupid man?
Answer: NO
The OJ case works for the media for a number of reasons. First and foremost the main reason they run with the story is simple - it sells. People can't get enough of it, or celebrities. It's why web sites with celebrities are top rank along with porn. Also, people who generally follow it also hate the guy and feel he escaped justice and has to pay. So it feeds the "love celebrities" and "hate celebrities" impulses in us. We love them, and love to see them torn down for rising so "far above" the rest of us. It's the current essence of America. So OJ is America. Or something like that.
Posted by: Bodie Plecas | September 17, 2007 at 04:00 PM