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Yup. Did that actually happen it was that dramatized?

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How the **** was Robert Shapiro able to try on the glove during a recess?!

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How the **** was Robert Shapiro able to try on the glove during a recess?!

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I had the exact same thought. Is what they showed just now really how it happened?!?

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How the **** was Robert Shapiro able to try on the glove during a recess?!

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I had the exact same thought. Is what they showed just now really how it happened?!?

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Good lord, their excitement over the gloves is like watching an accident and you can't do anything to stop it.

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Good grief. How long have you had that canned speech prepared and ready to drop on the world? Get over yourself.

If you bothered reading my other posts on the thread, you'd see that early on I was pretty outspoken about the impact this saga had on the forced 24-hour news cycle, continual celebrity following and coverage, nobodies becoming somebodies, reality TV, etc. That's what my post referenced.

But thank you for characterizing me as a Nazi (it was bound to come up in this thread eventually for someone) and a Trump supporter (I despise the man) and willfully ignorant and racist and whatever else you painted with your broad brush. Because lobbing grenades instead of asking for clarification is easier, right?

The irony of this whole exchange is that you've exactly proven my point -- jump to conclusions on an Internet forum, try to generate some "likes", hope someone else jumps on your bandwagon and attacks from a similar starting point of misunderstanding, and sit back and watch Rome burn, right? Kind of like focusing on Clark's hair instead of evidence? I'll continue to posit that the OJ saga had a lot to do with the current world we live in.

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Good grief. How long have you had that canned speech prepared and ready to drop on the world? Get over yourself.

If you bothered reading my other posts on the thread, you'd see that early on I was pretty outspoken about the impact this saga had on the forced 24-hour news cycle, continual celebrity following and coverage, nobodies becoming somebodies, reality TV, etc. That's what my post referenced.

But thank you for characterizing me as a Nazi (it was bound to come up in this thread eventually for someone) and a Trump supporter (I despise the man) and willfully ignorant and racist and whatever else you painted with your broad brush. Because lobbing grenades instead of asking for clarification is easier, right?

The irony of this whole exchange is that you've exactly proven my point -- jump to conclusions on an Internet forum, try to generate some "likes", hope someone else jumps on your bandwagon and attacks from a similar starting point of misunderstanding, and sit back and watch Rome burn, right? Kind of like focusing on Clark's hair instead of evidence? I'll continue to posit that the OJ saga had a lot to do with the current world we live in.

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Good grief. How long have you had that canned speech prepared and ready to drop on the world? Get over yourself.

If you bothered reading my other posts on the thread, you'd see that early on I was pretty outspoken about the impact this saga had on the forced 24-hour news cycle, continual celebrity following and coverage, nobodies becoming somebodies, reality TV, etc. That's what my post referenced.

But thank you for characterizing me as a Nazi (it was bound to come up in this thread eventually for someone) and a Trump supporter (I despise the man) and willfully ignorant and racist and whatever else you painted with your broad brush. Because lobbing grenades instead of asking for clarification is easier, right?

The irony of this whole exchange is that you've exactly proven my point -- jump to conclusions on an Internet forum, try to generate some "likes", hope someone else jumps on your bandwagon and attacks from a similar starting point of misunderstanding, and sit back and watch Rome burn, right? Kind of like focusing on Clark's hair instead of evidence? I'll continue to posit that the OJ saga had a lot to do with the current world we live in.

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Don't forget to ***** about Kardashian's unnecessary reference to his son Rob being given a hard time at school. Unnecessary pandering just for ratings.

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Good grief. How long have you had that canned speech prepared and ready to drop on the world? Get over yourself.

If you bothered reading my other posts on the thread, you'd see that early on I was pretty outspoken about the impact this saga had on the forced 24-hour news cycle, continual celebrity following and coverage, nobodies becoming somebodies, reality TV, etc. That's what my post referenced.

But thank you for characterizing me as a Nazi (it was bound to come up in this thread eventually for someone) and a Trump supporter (I despise the man) and willfully ignorant and racist and whatever else you painted with your broad brush. Because lobbing grenades instead of asking for clarification is easier, right?

The irony of this whole exchange is that you've exactly proven my point -- jump to conclusions on an Internet forum, try to generate some "likes", hope someone else jumps on your bandwagon and attacks from a similar starting point of misunderstanding, and sit back and watch Rome burn, right? Kind of like focusing on Clark's hair instead of evidence? I'll continue to posit that the OJ saga had a lot to do with the current world we live in.

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it's certainly hard to point to anything prior to this as having the same kind of impact.

you certainly had racially charged things prior to this - rodney king and i remember media frenzy about that, watts riots, civil rights movement etc. which were reported by standard news and in a a controlled way not 24/7.

and you certainly had celebrity controversy and scandal before but again never really in 24/7 style.

the 80's and early 90s had a few scandals that were sort of leading up to this...they had more than their share of coverage and CNN gave them more airtime than previous scandals had received....but nothing on this level.

Iran Contra affair
Gary Hart and Donna Rice affair
Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye and Jessica Hahn
Televangelsist Robert Tilton


but this was a perfect storm of celebrity, 24/7 access, scandal, sex, crime, fame, race, etc.....and the fact that you had neither a murder weapon nor any witnesses. Nothing like it before. And it did change people, perception, race relations, etc. It would have been completely different with a solid case including a weapon and witnesses.

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Most of it was just a classic case of overconfidence IMO. There was so much evidence that on its face seemed overwhelming, but you still have to take your time to look at it from every angle and come up with an approach that ensures the jury understands the story you are putting together, how the pieces fit together, and meshing it all together so that your story is largely bulletproof. One item of evidence may be questioned in a vacuum, but if you are ready to combat that questioning with clear logic (like the basics about the gloves and blood mentioned above), you can destroy the defense.

While it's a completely different territory, this is what I constantly try to remind myself to do with decks/presentations at work. While you are often so familiar with the material that something may make perfect sense to you, you still always need to step back and really spend some time asking yourself (1) have I approached in a way that is optimized for my audience to understand it and (2) what questions might someone with their perspective ask. It felt like the prosecution consistently failed on that end.

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