Category: ‘The Los Angeles Times’

'The Los Angeles Times', January 1995, The Headlines. The Story. A Life Interrupted.Leave a comment

Words Matter! I Told You!

Tee Bylo

Words matter. O.J. Simpson’s defense team asked Judge Lance A. Ito to order the prosecution to say domestic discord rather than domestic violence or even spousal abuse–already euphemisms for wife-beating–and to disallow the words battered wife and stalker.

Ito refused to alter reality by altering language but some media complied–for example, “Rivera Live,” where domestic discord became a new term of art. Continue reading Words Matter! I Told You!

'The Los Angeles Times', July 1994, June 12 1994 (Sunday), The Headlines. The Story. A Life Interrupted.Leave a comment

Hopeful Unto Death…

Tee Bylo

In the beginning, she didn’t even recognize him, that’s how unworldly she was. “That’s O.J. Simpson!” her boss at the nightclub exclaimed. She had never heard of the guy.

Later, friends and relatives would recount the episode and shake their heads. It wasn’t just the naiveté. By the time she married him seven years later at the age of 25, it seemed there had never been a time when the larger-than-life celebrity had not dominated her existence. Continue reading Hopeful Unto Death…