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Before the national media outcry about its content, O.J. Simpson’s new book “If I Did It” was scheduled to hit shelves on Nov. 30, following a two-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...
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...
...would think that Rupert Murdoch’s blatant censorship would be lambasted in the media, but surprisingly, it is Judith Regan who has received the punishment. After Murdoch’s public statement that the project was “ill considered,” Regan released her own statement entitled, “Why I Did It.” In it, she identifies herself as a victim of domestic abuse and attempts to justify her decision to publish the book...
...Regan states in her own press release: “‘To publish’ does not mean ‘to endorse’; it means ‘to make public.’ If you doubt that, ask the mainstream publishers who keep Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in print to this day.” If Regan really believes that she was only “making public” a certain kind of literature, then why did she issue her apologetic release...
...friend were murdered, O.J. Simpson, who, you may recall, was accused of their murders, suggested he was no longer in mourning by writing a fictional account of their deaths, titled If I Did It. He also agreed to do a Fox TV interview with his publisher, Judith Regan. After an outcry from, really, practically everyone, the book was pulled from stores and the TV interview canceled...