# OMG, Stop the Presses! \[O.J. Simpson media coverage\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 15, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526 "2007-11-15T13:18:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/1 "2007-11-15T13:18:49Z")
**OJ Simpson licked his lips!!!** This is the headline on the front page of [CNN.com](http://CNN.com): O.J. Simpson smirks, rolls eyes, licks lips Now, this is a video, and thanks to CNN’s new practice of half their fucking stories being videos, and my office’s net nanny blocking all video, I can’t actually watch OJ licking his lips. And it’s killing me, believe me. How can I be expected to work for the next 8 hours, knowing the OJ is licking his lips like there’s no tomorrow, not to mention ROLLING HIS EYES, and I am not able to watch? Do I have any recourse against my employer for blocking this crucial video? I’m thinking of faking an illness so I can go home and watch this incredible breaking news story. CNN. Morons. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/2 "2007-11-15T13:40:40Z")
But what about Stacy Peterson? America is crying out for more news about the latest “missing white woman” du jour!!! How dare they break from this all-important story to bring us “news” about OJ being an asshat!!! :mad: And let’s not forget those three children in Tennessee - the ones who suffered “minor injuries” during a storm last night!!! America needs to weep for them, too! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mushbrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mushbrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mushbrain)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/3 "2007-11-15T13:53:43Z")
Not every news outlet can be up to the high standards of FOX, you know. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/4 "2007-11-15T13:57:54Z")
I also saw on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) that Nancy Grace is hospitalized with blood clots. Does it make me a bad person that I hope said clots take her off the air permanently? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/5 "2007-11-15T14:01:06Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] I also saw on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) that Nancy Grace is hospitalized with blood clots. Does it make me a bad person that I hope said clots take her off the air permanently? [/QUOTE] Can they do that? Can blood clots cut off your air permanently? 😃 Oh…never mind. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tonedef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@tonedef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonedef)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/6 "2007-11-15T14:04:39Z")
Man you are missing the best lip lick i have seen since Jenna Jamerson’s last movie! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/7 "2007-11-15T14:07:42Z")
Switching the t.v. off will work wonders for your blood pressure. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/8 "2007-11-15T15:18:01Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Switching the t.v. off will work wonders for your blood pressure. [/QUOTE] You can access [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) from your TV? Cool beans. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/9 "2007-11-15T16:00:13Z")
[Scorpions] He’s licking his lips, he’s ready to win [/Scorpions] ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/10 "2007-11-15T17:07:39Z")
I miss the days when [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) actually reported the news. Now it seems that their “news” is comprised of videos contributed by every fuckstick with a cellphone camera. Their website has about as much journalistic integrity as Sesame Street. I’ll take my [NYTimes.com](http://NYTimes.com) or [WSJ.com](http://WSJ.com) any day. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/11 "2007-11-15T17:15:51Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] [Scorpions] He’s licking his lips, he’s ready to win [/Scorpions] [/QUOTE] You win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/12 "2007-11-15T17:17:56Z")
So it was OJ who rocked the hurricane that hurt those kids in Tennessee? That fucker. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/13 "2007-11-15T17:43:28Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] I also saw on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) that Nancy Grace is hospitalized with blood clots. [/QUOTE] She needs to brush her teeth more thoroughly. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/14 "2007-11-15T19:26:20Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] You can access [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) from your TV? Cool beans. [/QUOTE] Sure, if you use WebTV. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/15 "2007-11-15T19:55:14Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] I miss the days when [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) actually reported the news. Now it seems that their “news” is comprised of videos contributed by every fuckstick with a cellphone camera. Their website has about as much journalistic integrity as Sesame Street. [/QUOTE] Cookie Monster found not guilty in brutal double-murder ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/16 "2007-11-15T20:41:48Z")
O.J. still has that wry sense of humor working for him. As he said before he left the courtroom in Las Vegas yesterday: > [@](#): > > As always, I rely on the jury system. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/17 "2007-11-15T20:47:58Z")
Now what if he licked his eyebrows? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/18 "2007-11-15T20:54:20Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley] Now, this is a video, and thanks to CNN’s new practice of half their fucking stories being videos, and my office’s net nanny blocking all video, I can’t actually watch OJ licking his lips. [/QUOTE] Oh, how I despise that half the goddamn stories are videos. I can actually watch them if I wanted to, but it takes like 10 times the amount of time to get the same info than if they just put a text story on the page. Sometimes there’s both video and text, but often it just seems to be video only. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/19 "2007-11-16T02:08:33Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] I also saw on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) that Nancy Grace is hospitalized with blood clots. Does it make me a bad person that I hope said clots take her off the air permanently? [/QUOTE] In a word? [NO](http://www.observer.com/node/51941) [WAY](http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1115111123854)! CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-stop-the-presses-o-j-simpson-media-coverage/426526/20 "2007-11-16T02:13:50Z")
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