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I was 30 when this went down. It's hard to overstate what an impact the events and subsequent trials had on the American phyche at the time.
It had everything. Murder, California, cars, celebrities, sports figures, wealth, lawyers, drama galore for ~~months~~ years to come.
Great points! Also, "if the glove don't fit, you must acquit". That kind of reducing an issue to a single point and putting a catchy spin on it seems rampant in political messaging and advertising these days
In the 1860s, the practice of lying, misrepresenting, and focusing on catchy and lurid topics was known as “yellow journalism.”
The phrase was later shortened to “journalism.”
I believe that's factually incorrect. "Yellow journalism" became a known term circa the mid-1890s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Etymology_and_early_usage). Meanwhile "journalism" has essentially meant what term means today from an earlier time and has a different etymology:
I was borrowing a joke from “America, The Book.”