Art & Commerce: Debra Goldman's Consumer Republic

Like a bad penny, O.J. Simpson keeps turning up
After seeing O.J. Simpson on network television last week, I propose we take the 15 minutes of fame Andy Warhol promised everyone and turn it into a statutory time limit.
If only notoriety were restricted by law, we would not have to depend on the journalistic conscience of Barbara Walters. She cancelled a scheduled interview with O.J. on The View, citing viewer protests and her colleagues’ moral outrage at providing a forum to a man whom, according to a recent poll, 70 percent of Americans still consider a vicious murderer.