Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inside the courtroom, jury selection dragged on, with 102 people in the pool so far. Outside, the cacophony from the first trial continued. A new book, American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense, by Lawrence Schiller and TIME correspondent James Willwerth, quotes Robert Kardashian, the former Simpson confidant, as saying he now has doubts about Simpson's innocence. "What he's doing is violating attorney-client privilege," defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran charged, as he was busy promoting his own memoirs...
...divorce. Each time these tabloid stories seep into the "serious" press, it sparks another round of hand-wringing debate over whether news is what people "want" or what they "need." Many editors were privately dismayed at the massive amount of attention paid last year to the O.J. Simpson murder trial, an event of marginal news significance. Still, for competitive reasons, they couldn't ignore...
...this fragmented environment, where news is no longer a common experience, is it any wonder that blacks and whites saw the O.J. Simpson verdict in such a radically different light? Or that right-wing militia groups--nourished by their own books, periodicals and E-mail lists--can be convinced that the West is being invaded by U.N. troops in black helicopters? When traditional sources of news start to disappear, alternate views of the world can flourish...
...there are far more outlets for it now. It used to be that the networks could say to me and you, 'Sit down at 6:30. That's when we will give you the news.' Now we pick when we have time to watch the news." The O.J. Simpson case also broke many viewers of the evening news habit: when the trial (carried live on several cable channels) ran into the evening newscasts in the East and Midwest, viewers simply continued watching the trial...
...list of wealthy black men and asked them to bankroll the film. Among those who responded: actors Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes and Robert Guillaume; San Antonio Spurs basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...