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"There's no way O.J. can get a fair trail."
"The media coverage of O.J. Simpson has been unfair and sensational."
"Why must the media broadcast every lurid, unsubstantiated allegation?"
This just taps the surface in the constant drumbeat of criticism directed at America's newspapers and television stations, since the most spectacular criminal case in this country's history burst into everybody's consciousness last June.
For several weeks now, the media has been the object of unprecedented criticism from a multitude of sources. Either the media are accused of making up facts to intentionally hurt O.J., or they are widely believed to be throwing out whatever ethics they might have in order to make as much money as possible out of this tragedy.
I submit that, by and large, the media in this country have done an outstanding job of covering the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, and the subsequent arrest of football hero and movie star O.J. Simpson.
With few exceptions (there was no bloody ski mask; Nicole Simpson did not telephone her mother at 11 o'clock the night of the murder), the responsible (i.e., non-tabloid) media in this country...