After reading this article I wish I was a college student in the mid 1990s during this trial and event. From everything I have heard about it reveals that it was a much bigger deal than anyone could have thought. When the record tv audiences were being discussed by Hunt in this article I could remember seeing the black reaction of people on tv. All media outlets took advantage of this race war and fueled it in a very negative way. Whether it was when Time blackened OJ's face on the cover, NBC covering the white bronco police chase or CNN showing black women jumping all over the place when SImpson was delcared innocent, it was a raucous.
I found the facts about the opinion polls interesting too, as I knew it would lean that way. The framework of the poll, the deception and jolt of the media and even the lawyers and defendants turned this into more than just a murder trial. It was a race war. EVery single news outlet had their own poll and own reuslts and something new to try to get more viewers. It is kind of disgusting. Here are people mourning over the death of murder victims and the whole scenario was turned into a circus.
The contemporary events int he article where each defintiion is given of parts of the trial was extrmemely insightful. It proved to me that this trial did have everything that you could imagine mixed in between. It turned into a money making scheme for the networks and a fight between races in the real world. The impact of this trial was bigger than anything of the 90s. That really shouldn't be the case.
The fire that was lit under this trial and the misconceptions that came with it are ridiculous. This raced way of thinking Hunt explores should have never been available. But it is. THis article proves the differences of how people thought, but that's about it. There may have been a clear dividing line like Hunt states, but in my opinion it was forced. The UNited States of America turned into a battleground.
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I agree that this case blew up into something way beyond what it should have been. Its not like there was anything special about the case, its something that takes place (unfortuntely) everyday yet because he was a celebrity it got the spotlight. I wonder if the trial or the verdict would have been different had there not been such a media frenzy.
ReplyDeleteI agree that I would love to have been older to experience this case first-hand. But, I think someone else wrote how this could cause biases because it was so emotionally fueled. I, also agree completely, because I wrote in another blog how I asked my mom what she thought about the case. She was completely convinced that he was guilty and did not want to listen to the black/white divide. I guess, in a few ways, analyzing and looking back at it now is good too.
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