News Corp. acts after resistance from stations and advertisers. Rupert Murdoch apologizes.
By Martin Miller, Meg James and Gina Piccalo, Times Staff Writers
November 21, 2006A brewing rebellion by Fox affiliate television stations, coupled with resistance from the advertising world, prompted Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. on Monday to abandon its plan to publish a book and air a two-part TV interview with O.J. Simpson.
The interview and the book, both titled "If I Did It," were announced last Tuesday and were widely viewed as a device to bolster Fox's flagging ratings during the important November sweeps. The project had been promoted as revealing how the former football star would have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman.
Source: Simpson book, TV plan dropped - Los Angeles Times
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