FRONTLINE: The O.J. Verdict 10 years later just starting on PBS

[Up2Late]

New season. Excellent program.

This was the beginning of the End of Real News (I think).

[KyndCulture]

1. that is a very good point, the beginning of the end of real news!

[Bozita]

2. It's really sad to see Frontline wasting a program on OJ

Sounds more like an "Entertainment Tonight" special.

[Up2Late]

4. You should really watch this program before you judge, this is about...

...the way the News Media screwed up this case and lost most of their credibility in the process.

[Bozita]

5. If you still feel that way when it's over, I'll watch it

It starts here in 30 minutes.

Thanks.

[Up2Late]

7. It also was about how little the facts mattered to those interested...

...and how much this was a wake-up call for Liberal-white Americans that, even though we don't speak it or participate in racism, it was (and most likely still is) a problem in this country.

[Bozita]

8. Thanks. I'm taping it now

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. The end of real news began when an obviosly impaired

Presidential candidate wandered down the Pacific Coast Highway during a debate... and WON<sic> the debate!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you SPIN. Starring Peggy Noonan.

[Up2Late]

6. Huh??? I don't get it, sorry. But let me ask you one thing about you post.

What does "<sic>" mean? I've always wondered about that, and have never been able to find the answer to that question.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. It denotes an error in original written material.

It's used to point out a mistake, usually grammatical, without changing the offending word or phrase.

In my post I used it to denote that "Won" was a mistake that was caused? by the aforementioned "spin."

[Lexingtonian]

10. Good show.

I was in L.A. most of that time. It was like that in the city at the time, the show got the sensibility remarkably right. But it would have been brutal to fully portray the psychological intensity- both dramatic and horrifyingly dismal at once- it really had then and there.

It's easy to see how the criminal trial jury got past the DNA evidence there was, then as now. But it still seems to me that in rejecting the blood drop trail leading away from the crime scene itself- identified as Simpson's blood- as credible evidence is where they made a leap of faith, or logic, that imho the evidence made logically impossible. And that is painfully sad to me.

[Tomee450]

11. They rejected the blood evidence

because they thought it was planted. The police failed to handle evidence in the usual manner.

[Lexingtonian]

12. perhaps so.

But the 3 different blood drop trails (at the two houses and in the car), all OJ's, added up to so much more blood than the 1-3 cc's max that could have been "missing" from OJ's lab sample that Van Natter took to the crime lab, which was the only possible source.

It was sheer mendacity pretend that planting 3 cc's could account for it all. Some of those 20 blood spots that led away from the crime scene were over an inch in diameter. 3 cc's might be enough for two or three of them. My guess was you would have needed about 50 cc's total for all the blood drops. And if they had been planting it all, probably some more for the glove(s).

It would have been very very obvious to the lab and sample collectors if the drops had been made by blood diluted with water or admixed human or animal blood of any kind, or blood taken from the mess that was the murder scene.

[question everything]

15. Last week was a similar program, on the Discovery channel

I think and the prosecution was criticized. One point, they wondered, why didn't they bring up the "slow chase?" O.J. had about $10K on him, carried a false beard - everything in that chase pointed to someone trying to flee. Yet, they chose not to bring it up.

[LaPera]

13. Watch "The Sixties", instead, on PBS, a bit more real. n/t

:smoke:

[Up2Late]

14. I saw that show over the weekend, great stuff.

It was on after parts 1 and 2 of the Bob Dylan: No Direction Home and then it went into the 2 hour "Get up, Stand Up" which covered every protest movement of the 20th and 21st Century.

That was an exhausting (8 hour) night of Happiness.