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The O.J. Media Circus |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Jeremy Bloom |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,906 Words, 16,498 Characters |
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Every few years, someone rediscovers one of the oldest truisms of the human condition: Murder sells!
This revelation is generally accompanied by two things: much income for the revelators and much criticism by those of goodwill as they question the morals of the sensationalists.
The O.J. Simpson case, rapidly shaping up to be the single most publicized trial of all time, has seen the ethical critics out in force, as the media cover "the media doing the O.J. story" almost as much as the story itself.
And with good reason, too. The avalanche of Simpson coverage has sometimes seemed to snow under the media's coverage of a host of other issues that are arguably of much greater public import. And this is seen by many critics as an abdication of the media's responsibility to th...
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...er case.
The media's Simpson avalanche may have led to downplaying or omitting coverage of events arguably of much greater public importance.
The media acted with such frenzy to sell more newspapers, magazines, and on-air advertising.
They reacted also to the reading viewing public, which lusted for more details of the apparent fall of a twentieth-century cultural icon.
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