News Corp Apologizes for OJ debacle

Who's apologizing now?

None other than Rupert Murdoch, king of the News Corp empire, himself.

FNC "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."


And what idiot gave Judith Regan the green light on this, anyway? Trouble from the start....

"If I Did It," which was to be published by ReganBooks — an imprint to HarperCollins, was scheduled for release Nov. 30. FOX had planned to air a two-part TV interview of Simpson on Nov. 27 and 29.

In the television world, the closest precedent for such an about-face came when CBS yanked a miniseries about Ronald Reagan from its schedule in 2003 when complaints were raised about its accuracy. The Reagan series was seen on its sister premium-cable channel, Showtime, instead.

For the publishing industry, the cancellation of "If I Did It" was an astonishing end to a story like no other.