A few days ago I asked “Are Americans really this sick?” after finding out that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. planned to publish a book by O.J. Simpson title If I Did It through its HarperCollins unit and air a two part primetime TV interview with the murderer on its Fox network.
Happily, I read this afternoon that the backlash against these inexplicable products has worked, that greed-driven appeals to the most base instincts don’t always succeed. “I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” Murdoch said today.
Then again, perhaps the company was simply acknowledging reality as more than a dozen affiliates decided not to air the shows, one of the major chains agreed to donate any profits to a relevant charity and even its own star staffers announced their disgust along with plans to boycott any advertisers.
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