In an update to an earlier post, Fox has canceled plans to air an interview with O.J. Simpson where Simpson describes how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend if he were the killer. According to an AP story, “A dozen Fox affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the Nov. 30 publication of the book by ReganBooks. The publishing house is a HarperCollins imprint owned — like the Fox network — by News Corp.” I guess this means that the book will not enter general circulation, though I imagine some copies will get out and sell for big money. I predict that we have not heard the last of this story.
Also from the AP: “For the publishing industry, the cancellation of ‘If I Did It’ was an astonishing end to a story like no other. Numerous books have been withdrawn over the years because of possible plagiarism, most recently Kaavya Viswanathan’s ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,’ but a book’s removal simply for objectionable content is virtually unheard of.”
Posted by Adam Kolber on November 20, 2006 at 07:53 PM