Blog #17

Mitch Albom raised a great question when he presented the O.J. Simpson trial as the most important American event of the past two decades- what was the most important American event of the past two decades? It's hard to imagine the O.J. Simpson trial as the most important American event of the last two decades when you juxtapose it with the fall of the Soviet Union and the break up of the Warsaw Pact, or the Persian Gulf War or the many Presidential elections of the past two decades. However impossible it may seem, I agree with Albom's assertion that the O.J. Simpson trial affected American society the most. The fall of the Soviet Union or the the Persian Gulf War may have been huge news when they occurred, but their lasting affects pale in comparision to the O.J. Simpson trial. I have tried watching traditional news sources such as CNN, Fox, or MSN before, but now I cannot. These stations brodcast such copious amounts of crap that I can no longer trust them. This is a direct result of the O.J. Trial's drastic affects on the media. How can anything else compare?