Comments on: Victory!

By: Ginger

Ginger — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:33:01 +0000

I’m fascinated with Murdoch’s quote. Just how did a sentence that begins, “I and senior management agree…” get through the secretaries, editors etc. who send out press releases? Didn’t everyone learn in 2nd grade that it’s “Senior Management and I”?

By: Fargus

Fargus — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:02:18 +0000

NewsCorp made the right decision in dumping the program and the book, but it doesn’t stop the fact that they were going to run it in the first place. Bad taste rules in Rupert Murdoch’s world. Bad taste and a finger in the wind of public opinion, evidently.

By: Wayno

Wayno — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:10:01 +0000

I watched O.J. on Court TV. I knew he was guilty. I knew he would get off. I haven’t watched a minute of Court TV since. FOX just did a very important thing to insure their financial viability, they dumped O.J. before we dumped FOX

By: A Blog For All

A Blog For All — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:29:58 +0000

Spiked

I’m assuming that everyone has heard that OJ Simpson had a book coming out, and was going to be interviewed on television about it? Well, Fox cancelled the book/television special.

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » The Right Thing

Blue Crab Boulevard » The Right Thing — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:25:01 +0000

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By: docweasel

docweasel — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:40:25 +0000

Exactly, I may have used 2000 words to say what you have distilled in one sentence. And more generally, using your rights to try to deprive others of their rights is a tangled mess in which to get involved, and it handicaps you arguing for libertarian points in later arguments.

I am reflexively against anyone dictating what I can and cannot watch, or in anyone trying to interfere in the dissemination of entertainment or information, and a good deal of my various artistic endeavours are probably quite offensive to many people, so I also have a personal interest in this sort of thing.

I think a lot of people feel the way I do, because most boycotts have had the effect of whipping up more interest in a subject than it otherwise would have gotten had those who disliked it merely ignored it (like The Last Temptation of Christ, etc.)

By: Wake up America

Wake up America — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:19:30 +0000

O.J.’s Book Cancelled

My only comment….. good Riddance! Didn’t we have enough of this with his trials?
Consider this an open trackback for the day.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:06:11 +0000

Just to put a finer point on it – I understand that you weren’t saying it wasn’t our right to boycott, but that it was a bad idea in general because next time it may be something I want to watch that gets cancelled…I hear ya…all the same, this show, for me, crossed a line, and I’m gratified to see that hundreds of thousands of others didn’t want to see that line crossed, either…

Maybe I’m wrong on this one, but if so, I’m a happy fool…

By: too many steves

too many steves — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:04:49 +0000

What News was providing with this show was entertainment. Their purpose was to generate revenue through ad and book sales. That they responded to broad public displeasure by cancelling the show and book simply demonstrates that they are observant and shrewd businessmen.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:03:41 +0000

docweasel, I respect your opinion…it’s very rare for me to get involved with something like this (I’m generally not the boycotting type). We can agree to disagree, I hope, on whether boycotts are a permissable expression of free speech (I believe they are, but we’ve been over that ground).

In any event, if O.J. is so concerned about confessing, he can call up Fox News and go on the air and confess to Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo, or the Pope, and I won’t complain…as long as he isn’t paid, confess away!…