Continued from OJ is an example, but not the root, of a problem Part 1...
Why is it that the major news media spent two days discussing the fact that Sean Bell was shot by police and have yet to mention significantly that the police have been indicted of the crime? Why is it that the media spent four days discussing how Mr. Wesley Snipes “was hiding” from the IRS when he was accused of tax fraud and not one news institution could even hint during that entire time that he might be working overseas? Yet I, with out their resources, came to that conclusion the first day. Why is it that when it was found to be true that Mr. Snipes was working and volunteered to give himself up to the authorities, there was huge press implying that he was being arrested against his will the second he walked off the plane on US soil. Yet today they have not followed upon the story once while I, with my far more limited resources, know that he is fighting this case. Why is it that I’ve reported that out of roughly 2000 potential fraud cases committed by his tax accountants he is the only one accused of plotting, as the mastermind, to commit fraud? The media is biased and of course I’ve said this many times.
The fact that OJ has also mentioned this does not lessen nor take away from the fact that he is right. The bias is so extreme as to be the keys sitting on the desk while you search the house for them.
Let me ask something different, obviously the Goldman family, the Brown family, the major news media and most of America - that is not African American - hates OJ Simpson. In particular the families of the murder victims have actively pursued Mr. Simpson for over a decade, which I can understand. They believed his guilt even though a court has proved his innocence. Generally in America that is supposed to be the end of the story but OJ is black so it isn’t. The Brown and Goldman families stated clearly that before the book If I Did It came out their only desire was to insure that this book would never see the light of day. They stated that this was an insult to the memory of their loved ones. And that did stop the book from being published. Now they have acquired the rights to the book. What are they doing with those rights? They are actively seeking to publish the book under a new title. I have to ask why?
If the book was so horrendous and in their view an admission of guilt, that it did not deserve to be published, then why are they looking for money? I am surprised that their position on this book has turned now that they can profit from it. I’m not saying they don’t deserve to profit or that they are not still suffering a loss. Yet it seems obvious their motivation is profit. That seems a bit insincere to me.
In each interview that I have observed on Fox News with the Goldman’s the questions been asked, will you add your commentary (the Goldman’s commentary) to the book. Shouldn’t the question be, why are you trying to profit off of a book you claimed was an insult and should never see the light of day? How can news reporters say, like Sheppard Smith of Fox News who at 3:31pm August 1, 2007 stated his, belief of guilt on OJ’s part when the fact is OJ was proven innocent in a court of law by his peers (which included White Americans in the jury)? The bias is immense.
Continued in Part 3...
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