Say It Ain't So, Rupe

He pulled it? Rupert Murdoch pulled the O.J. book and the O.J. Special? And Rupert Murdoch personally issued a statement of apology for causing pain to the families of the victims? Is this possible? When you live in New York City, when you read Murdoch's New York Post every day, it's hard to imagine that there's anything that could possibly make Rupert Murdoch lose his tabloid nerve or apologize for causing pain to anyone. I mean, what is a tabloid? It's a paper that causes pain to at least half the people it writes about every single day.

What a shame. I wasn't planning to watch O.J. on television or buy the book, but I was certainly planning to read about it. I didn't expect the book to be good, and I certainly didn't expect it to sell enough copies to justify whatever Judith Regan was paying to publish it, but I was looking forward to another bath of O.J. stuff. These American mysteries have a way of washing back every so often - the death of Marilyn Monroe has a half-life more powerful than plutonium - and in some weird way, they're like old acquaintances. Now that Murdoch has lost his nerve, isn't anyone going to publish this garbage? Where's Lyle Stuart now that we need him? Oh well.