MSNBC was about to cover Bernie’s rally in our town but then switched to some stupid OJ Simpson development instead. I understand that there is a popular new TV series on OJ being aired this month but do we have to drop everything and replay the stale old OJ drama on every news channel today?
Bernie or OJ?
Clarissa's Blog 
Ha! I remember where I was during the freeway chase and when they read the verdict. The teacher actually rolled a television into the classroom, plugged it in and switched it on, which I found ridiculous. I think the adults at the time were far more obsessed with it than anyone else. My mother watched the trial daily as she did with the Menendez brothers. She finds this serial very exciting.
Bernie gets preempted because of this generational obsession and because he acts like an adult which is not exciting to the target audience for midday MSNBC viewers.
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I will watch the series but I like to have it all released before I watch.
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I couldn’t give a toss about the whole OJ Simpson business- and that series is being promoted over here incessantly too. Bad enough when the story fist came out, albeit I only remember it barely, yet I can remember how hyped it all was.
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How is Bernie giving a speech national news, even if it was at YOUR university? All of the candidates in both parties are giving speeches everyday during the election season.
“New” news about the OJ murders definitely merits a mention on the news networks.
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They showed two long clips from Cruz and Rubio rallies. Like Cruz and Rubio don’t have their own network to cover their events.
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But breaking news? If OJ’s DNA is on it, it doesn’t matter because he cannot be tried again for those murders, plus he’s already in prison for armed robbery.
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Famous unresolved murders/assassinations always have an enduring appeal to the public, even if the suspects/known killers are long dead and beyond the reach of the law.
If “new” news popped up about the conspiracy theories concerning the murders of Jimmy Hoffa, JFK, Bobby Kennedy, or Martin Luther King, that information would certainly make the national news.
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I think it’s just a clumsy way to promote the TV series. Somebody gave somebody else some knife that might have been connected in some way to a 20-year-old crime. Big deal.
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Wow, talk about conspiracy theories! 🙂
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