Staring down a backlash of epic proportions, Fox finally blinked.
In the wake of news that at least a dozen of Fox’s own affiliates would refuse to air “If I Did It,” O.J. Simpson’s upcoming “hypothetical” confession interview special, Fox parent company News Corp has scrapped not only the two-night, sweeps-capping television program but also the book release that program was scheduled to promote.
Never mind how utterly reprehensible it was for News Corp and its broadcast and publishing offshoots to ever back this project in the first place; we’ll let that slide for the moment. For now, let’s just chalk one up for the good guys, taking pleasure in knowing that the morally bankrupt have lost this round.
And let us never speak of this again.
