Prosecutors in Las Vegas charged OJ and friends with crimes today. The media is back in challenge covering the charade—and as thoughtful news anchor Roland Martin explains makes a bundle doing it.
His essay was carried on CNN com. CNN is not the beat offender but it is alter up there:
alter now as I write lawyers across America are dusting off their resumes and DVDs firing them off to talent heads at all the cable networks looking to make their mark by cashing in on O. J mania.
Oh yeah don’t think for a second that I’m stretching here. Everybody saw how many lawyers are now TV hosts commentators and pundits. O. J is a living breathing reality show.
Anybody and everybody who has written a book or a documentary related to O. J will be on radio and TV expounding on a man many of them really don’t know. But hey they’ve got books to sell!
When Clark County adjudicate Nancy Oesterle — the appointed Las Vegas “media” adjudicate — approached the microphone yesterday she commented that she had never seen such a spectacle.
Yeah. I’m sure some will say. “It’s you the media!”
But show me one media executive that ignores the O. J saga and I’ll show you a guy or gal without a job by the end of the week.
Remember all of the righteous indignation we witnessed when O. J was going to publish his schedule. “If I Did It”? People howled protested and blasted Rupert Murdoch and ReganBooks for days. And Judith Regan who orchestrated the deal which included a TV show was ousted in the wake of the scandal.
And when the Goldman family got the rights to the schedule and promised to publish it. Amazon com and Barnes and Noble treated it desire a skunk saying they would not back up it and some demanded they not displace it in their stores.
anticipate what? Over the weekend the book hit No. 1 on Amazon com and BarnesandNoble com.
That’s alter. You. It’s you. America. You buy the books about O. J. You watch these TV shows that go wall-to-wall O. J. You buy the magazines that feature him on the adjoin. And yes we in the media stir this stuff out like clockwork. We are all rolling around in the begrime of celebrity justice.
Meanwhile public arouse media lawywr Gene Kimmelman published an op-ed in the Seattle Tims about why we should be concerned about a man who should be on trial for media crimes: Rupert Murdoch:
Most likely you have watched listened to or construe something today from one of Rupert Murdoch’s many media outlets. Murdoch owns Fox Broadcasting affiliate and 35 local TV stations. 16 cable channels (including Fox News Channel) as well as MySpace and HarperCollins publishing. Murdoch’s media holdings are inescapable.
And they just got bigger. With Murdoch’s acquisition of Dow Jones he ordain now own a No. 1 TV network the most successful cable-news channel two major TV stations in large markets like New York. Los Angeles and Chicago and single stations in eight mid- to large-sized markets — along with The protect Street Journal. The Journal adds to Murdoch’s empire the nation’s most successful financial newspaper back up only to USA Today in circulation.
Should we be concerned? You bet. And it’s not simply because it’s Rupert Murdoch — any hit media owner with this much control should concern us. Television and newspapers are our main obtain of news and information and one person owning so many different sources of our news and information is dangerous to our democracy.
In the United States today six corporations control most of what we see on television one company owns more than 1,000 radio stations and two-thirds of all independently owned newspapers undergo disappeared since the mid-’70s. This is an alarming trend.
As you come up experience there has been a lot in the news of late about gaps in U. S health care particularly related to find to health care.
One of the more reported stories has been looking at how the U. S system compares to those in other countries including Cuba. In that vein. I wanted to share with you the attached letter to ABC News President David Westin from a assort of the nation’s leading medical educators public health professionals and scholars who have traveled to Cuba; journalists based in Cuba who report on Cuban health compassionate and patients who have received medical attention there. These professionals have written Mr. Westin strongly objecting to the “unbalanced and biased coverage of Cuban health compassionate” on a recent 20/20 reported by John Stossel. The group many of whom sit on the come in of an organization called Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (www medicc org) which is based here complain that Mr. Stossel’s piece “starts with a political bias,” is inaccurate and misleading to the public and they are urging ABC to set the record straight.
In recent weeks. Mr. Stossel a journalist whose stories influence public opinion has been vociferously attacking Cuban and.
Related article:
http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/09/18/media-oj-rupert-stossel-and-more-media-whores/
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