Targeting Murtha

"From San Francisco journalist/lawyer Peter Scheer, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, the dumbest idea I've seen in a long time:

" ' What to do? Here's my proposal: Newspapers and wire services need to figure out a way, without running afoul of antitrust laws, to agree to embargo their news content from the free Internet for a brief period -- say, 24 hours -- after it is made available to paying customers. The point is not to remove content from the Internet, but to delay its free release in that venue.'"

Yeah, that'd go over well.

This may be the most sickening thing I've ever heard:

"In a new TV interview and book, O.J. Simpson discusses how he would have committed the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend 'if he did it,' " says the New York Post.

"The two-part television interview, titled 'O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened,' will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29 on Fox, the TV network said Tuesday."

I thought he was busy looking for the real killers.

Chicago Tribune critic Phil Rosenthal sounds as disgusted as I am:

"Not sleazy enough for you? The interview is to be conducted by publisher Judith Regan, class act that she is, whose Regan imprint for HarperCollins, class act that it is, will put out Simpson's hypothetically confessional 'If I Did It.'

"Because HarperCollins and Fox are both News Corp. companies, it's one hand soiling the other.

"Mike Darnell, Fox's executive vice president of alternative programming, said in a statement heralding 'O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened,' 'This is an interview that no one thought would ever happen.' And that's undoubtedly true. For a lot of reasons. Not the least of which is it's tasteless and utterly unnecessary."