So I made a post about the video game featuring OJ Simpson as one of the players back on the 25th (What happens when you mix a video game and OJ Simpson). I found the nature of the videoclip to be upsetting. The obssesion that the nation has with OJ Simpson is abnormal.
But even more has come out about this video game, All-Pro Football 2K8. It seems that a fee was paid to OJ for using his image. That is a standard for a celebrity or entertainer in any media. What is not standard is the fact that those fees are being taken by the Goldman family.
This is another case of the Goldman family going after the money, in my opinion. Much like the huge amount of press that was created when the book If I Did It was first mentioned, with the Goldman family denouncing the book and stating it should never be published, that then morphed into the Goldman’s taking the rights and now seeking to monetize that same book.
I find it odd that there was no denouncement of this video game profiting because it implied OJ was a killer. No mention that this game was a means that Take-Two Interactive Software, the publisher of this and GTA (Grand Theft Auto), was merely cashing in on the deaths of 2 people and the sensationalism that has surrounded those deaths. Was it because this game showed OJ in the light of a killer? Is it ok for any company to profit on those murdered as long as they support the Goldman’s beliefs?
I have never said OJ is innocent. The courts, and a jury of his peers said that. Yet, the media and the legal system have not stopped punishing him for getting the innocent verdict that he received. And the Goldman family, along with the Brown family, have not stopped in their attempt to cash in.
Perhaps the intention at first was to punish a man they saw as guilty. I can understand that. But I can’t help feel that as time has gone on, with most of a nation sharing the same belief, the motivation has gone from punishment to reward. Punishment is preventing the OJ Simpson book from being published. Punishment would be changing the nature of the game or denouncing it as money-grabbing sensationalism. Reward is changing the title of the book and making a profit, or allowing the game to exist and claim the liscencing fee for it.
This stopped being about guilt or innocence a long time ago. At least as I see it. Unlike the Robert Blake case, the current Phil Spector case, or the Von Bulow case, attention on every aspect of OJ Simpson is purely motivated by money at this point. I mentioned it before, OJ is the Jack the Ripper of modern America. The media and the Goldman’s are just profiting on the near-legend status they have created.
So I wonder, where does the greed stop? When does the public notice that every move being made by OJ, and the Goldman’s at this point are all about profiting off the death of 2 people? When does this case stop being the singular most discussed topic of media? When might the profit from this all end?
This is what I think, what do you think?
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