O. J. Simpson Facts and Fictions : News Rituals in the Construction of Reality

Rating:
Summary: a unique perspective, very informative
Review: The author is a socioligist, and tells of testing the opinions of two groups as to OJ's guilt. You won't learn anything new from this book. It does have a long list of books on the case, but no ratings or summaries on them.

The OJ case received more publicity than the Oklahoma City bombing or the Clinton impeachment. The National Association of Editors and Publishers has never told of the reasons for its play in the news. Could it have been intended as a distraction from other news?

In May 1994 the newspapers carried stories on how North Korea was ready to attack and start a war; this was repeated weekly. In 1999 I read that President Carter had been sent on a diplomatic mission to N. Korea (must have been a success, since the propaganda stopped).

Could the double murders in Brentwood have been well-publicized as a distraction? Isn't two murders a day the usual LA statistics? How many other waiters (just from Mezzaluna) were murdered each year? Didn't "Killing Time" note that restaurants and health clubs (in LA and elsewhere) were often used a fronts for drug dealing and prostitution?