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FIRED. Judith Regan, 53, controversial book publisher; by Harper- Collins, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.; after weeks of disastrous publicity over the planned, then scrapped, publication of If I Did It, O.J. Simpson's hypothetical account of how he would have committed the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman; in Los Angeles...
...club "niggers" and joked about lynching them, it capped a season of celebrity lunacy. Mel Gibson had his anti-Jewish tirade during a drunk-driving arrest; actor Isaiah Washington reportedly called a fellow Grey's Anatomy cast member a "faggot" during an argument on set. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, meanwhile, apologized last week not for bigotry per se but for cynically ripping off the race-and-gender scab of the O.J. Simpson trial by offering Simpson a book deal and TV show to describe how he "hypothetically" would have butchered his wife and her friend...
...meyer, NASA scientist, announcing that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft had fallen silent after nearly 10 years of beaming data on the planet back to Earth-more than double its expected life "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project." RUPERT MURDOCH, News Corp. CEO, announcing the cancellation of a TV interview with O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman. Murdoch also canceled Simpson's book, If I Did It "It is possible to use studio makeup to have...
...Rupert Murdoch has just canceled the O.J. Simpson book and TV special in which Simpson (presumably) describes how he would have half-decapitated Nicole Simpson and stabbed Ron Goldman had "the real killers" not done it first. The cancellation is certainly justified on grounds of decency, sensitivity and, given the universal public revulsion, commercial good sense. But I would have done differently. I would have let O.J. speak...
...chuckled at Murdoch's claim that Fox News chief Roger Ailes "has been insistent on equal time for all sides." This is the same Ailes who served as media strategist for three Republican Presidents and once produced Rush Limbaugh's now extinct television show. This is the same fair-minded producer whose "journalists," such as Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, frequently tell their guests to shut up, and turn off the microphones when they hear viewpoints opposed to their own. George Peterman New Haven, Connecticut...