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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.
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.