OJ book cancellation - People power wins out over greed

IN a world dominated by corporate wealth, people power is a scarce commodity.

If anything, the sense of rarity is underscored by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s decision to cancel OJ Simpson’s controversial book entitled If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened.

It’s hard to conceive of a more offensive, tasteless or despicable media stunt than a book chronicling how he would have murdered his ex-wife and her friend in 1994. Naturally, there would be a television interview on global divisions of the Murdoch-owned News Corp.