The O.J. Simpson Case and The Media

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Examines components of effective business writing, assessment criteria and the need for and techniques of teaching college students to write intelligently and effectively

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Examines components of effective business writing, assessment criteria and the need for and techniques of teaching college students to write intelligently and effectivelyThe real winners were the television stations, book authors, and reporters who turned the case into a media gold mine. Perhaps the most lasting social effect of the trial was the revelation of racial differences in thinking in America.

The O.J. Simpson criminal case had all the ingredients that tabloid journalists crave. Simpson was, of course, a celebrity. In addition, he was attractive, as were the murder victims. Spicing up the case were the added, forbidden elements of race and sex: "America's dirty little secret--the obsession with race and sex that had haunted the nation since the days of slavery and ..."

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