Tag: Geraldo Rivera (1943)

'The Los Angeles Times', January 1995, The Headlines. The Story. A Life Interrupted.2 Comments

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!

'Nicole Brown Simpson A Private Diary of a Life Interrupted' ~ Faye Resnick, 'The O.J. Simpson Story', 'Vogue' Magazine, June 16 1994 (Thursday), May 1995, The Headlines. The Story. A Life Interrupted.1 Comment

The Infamy of a Contradictory Narrative!

Tee Bylo

It has become common for reporters to ask Denise Brown questions that might illuminate O.J. and Nicole’s Brentwood life, as if understanding a victim could explain a murder.

I, too, was curious about the dynamic inside a family that could give us such sisters, trained perhaps by example to be man-pleasers, at the very least.

Denise Brown has been much interviewed; she’s adept at repeating certain key phrases. Continue reading The Infamy of a Contradictory Narrative!