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...Simpson's ill-fated homicidal fantasy If I Did It may yet see the light of day. One of the major publishing fiascos of 2006, the volume was abruptly pulled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. right before it was due to land on store shelves in late November, the victim of widespread public outrage. But the title itself, like a bad penny, may resurface, perhaps before...
...part interview on Fox News. Judith Regan, the publisher of “If I Did It,” marketed the book as Mr. Simpson’s hypothetical confession for the 1995 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. But on Nov. 20, Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., which owns ReganBooks, cancelled its publication. And on Dec. 15, Judith Regan was fired...
...Murdoch chose to, as he said, “agree with the American public.” But what he actually meant was that he chose to decide for the American public. And by releasing her own contrite statement shortly thereafter, Regan only served to support Murdoch’s barefaced suppression of her project...
...have to buy the book. Just like they don’t have to buy pornography, or read “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star” (another ReganBooks product), or watch “American Psycho.” Good thing Murdoch wasn’t around during the publication of “The Origin of Species,” or we might never have been able to read that, either...
...serves to undermine her original journalistic duty: to look under the rock and to see what is growing there. Just because her audience doesn’t like what she found doesn’t mean she should apologize. And it definitely doesn’t mean that Rupert Murdoch should get to decide whether or not the American public can see what she found. It’s time for Judith Regan to stop apologizing and to start looking for a boss who can stand behind her in controversy instead of kowtowing to the whims of the American public...