New York Times Tweaks Its O.J. Simpson Obit After Showing Sympathy Towards The Alleged Murderer

PublishedApril 12, 2024 1:12 AM EDT|UpdatedApril 12, 2024 7:42 AM EDT

Leave it to The New York Times to completely swing and miss with its coverage of the passing of O.J. Simpson.

Simpson was remembered for being accused of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman, in 1994 before being acquitted in '95 in a highly publicized trial. Frankly speaking, 99.9 percent of people believe Simpson did murder his ex-wife and the 25-year-old Goldman. A free man but rightly despised.

Simpson is now gone — officially passing away on Wednesday after a battle with prostate cancer — which prompted a New York Times obituary, written by people out of touch with reality.

While The Times' obituary mentioned Simpson's many accomplishments on and off the football field, as well as his many controversies, one excerpt from the obituary stood out: "He ran to football fame on the field and made fortunes in movies. But his world was ruined after he was charged with killing his former wife and her friend."

While that is a factually correct statement, it's also a ridiculous one. The Times electing to write "his world was ruined" when describing a man who allegedly slaughtered two people was a bold choice, and people noticed.

After users across social media took note of The Times' wording, the paper edited the line to the following: "He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point on race in America."

This wasn't the only line from the original obituary to cast a blanket of sympathy over the alleged killer.

Another line within the original write-up read, "The infamous case, which held up a cracked mirror to Black and white America, cleared Mr. Simpson but ruined his world."

It was later changed to this: "The jury in the murder trial cleared him, but the case, which had held up a cracked mirror to Black and white America, changed the trajectory of his life."

Lousy stuff from The Times. The publication clearly got caught up in the race to be among the first to publish an obituary on Simpson only to come across as sympathetic towards Simpson and completely disregard the two people he allegedly murdered 30 years ago.

You're better off listening to OutKick founder Clay Travis. He commented on The Juice's death:

"My thoughts on OJ Simpson’s death. He killed two people and used the actual deaths of people killed by racists decades before as justification for why he shouldn’t pay for his own crimes. He never asked for forgiveness or apologized. Rot in hell, Juice," Travis stated.

The Times was rightfully grilled for signing off on that obit to (mostly) paying readers — another blunder made by The New York Times, another day.

An X user commented, "I think Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman's lives were 'ruined' when the deranged man murdered them. He is a murderer. He deserves no flowery prose to cover his crimes."

A murderer was acquitted in 1995; two people were murdered in 1994; American lives were changed; now, Simpson lies to rot after a battle with cancer.

Also catching flack for poor decisions, the Heisman Trophy's X account honored Simpson's passing on Thursday, seemingly unaware that O.J. was no longer associated with his football achievements.

Dopey high-level people in the lib media still hold jobs … so could we see the Oscars 'eff' up their show next year by adding O.J. to their In Memoriam? Don't put it past them.

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