... a food group. The rest of America and the world became obsessed with the fascinating, if not nauseating, celebrity-dominated West Los Angeles backdrop to the crime. The trial of O.J. Simpson, media labeled it the "Trial of the Century", turned into an epic of exploitation and media overkill that grew over the months into some huge cancerous media frenzy, feeding not only on itself, but also the appetite of its audience, who was desperate for more and more titillating details. If all of this was not enough, the vicious murder of two innocent people created a legal mud fight that questioned the competence of just about everyone involved and created a division between the black and white community that a news poll estimated may have set back race relations in the United States by thirty years. To many, largely in minority communities, the trial of Simpson became not so much ...

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