O.J. Book and Interview Cancelled

Posted on November 20, 2006

After an absolute avalanche of protests from booksellers, victims' rights organizations, media pundits and just about everyone who has a shred of decency left in them, Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman of Fox has announced that he is cancelling the publication of O.J. Simpson's new book, If I Did It. All copies of the book will be destroyed. It was scheduled to arrive in bookstore at the end of the month. A television special promoting the book is also being canceled.

News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said in a statement, "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project. We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson."

Rupert Murdoch may have had a crisis of conscience. But we think it was the many advertisers who threatened to pull their ads from Fox during Thanksgiving week that caused Murdoch to pull the plug. Oh, please. Like you think the guy that owns Fox channel with all that salacious programming cares about tackiness? This is about dollars and cents.

The interview is already taped and we bet it's going to make its way to YouTube soon.