Ballyhoo over FX series leads to outsize claims about O.J. case
The media ballyhoo over the FX miniseries about the O.J. Simpson murder saga of 1994-95 has been accompanied by a variety of misconceptions and exaggerated claims about the case and … Continue reading
FX miniseries on 1995 O.J. case is crassly exploitative
Last night’s second installment leaves little doubt: The 10-part FX cable miniseries about the infamous, mid-1990s O.J. Simpson double-murder case is crassly exploitative. Why else revisit a case in which … Continue reading
The 1995 ‘Trial of the Century’ is back: But so what?
When the cable miniseries meets recent history, distortion is predictable. So it is with the FX network’s much-ballyhooed dramatization of the sensational O.J. Simpson double murder case, which was tried … Continue reading
Looking back at a watershed year: 1995 in blog posts
The year 1995 was a watershed in digital media, domestic terrorism, political scandal, crime and justice, and international diplomacy. Over the past 12 months, The 1995 Blog revisited the watershed … Continue reading
When America stood still: The O.J. verdicts, 20 years after
The watershed year 1995 produced two flashbulb events in America — moments so powerful and memorable that for years afterward people remembered where they were, and what they were doing, … Continue reading
Hinge moment at the O.J. ‘Trial of the Century’
O.J. Simpson never testified at his sensational double-murder trial in 1995. Even so, a consistent feature of the often-absorbing, often-repellant case was that Simpson was never far from center stage … Continue reading
O.J. and DNA: Applying the ‘Page 99 Test’ to ‘1995’
The “Page 99 Test” holds that the contents of page 99 offer revealing insight about the rest of the book. It is an intriguing if serendipitous approach to assessing quality, … Continue reading
So. Africa case like the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995? Only marginally
The highly publicized trial in South Africa of Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympics star sprinter acquitted this week of murder but convicted of culpable homicide, often has been likened to the … Continue reading
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