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How O.J. Simpson’s Impact on Media Coverage Still Leaves Mixed Feelings Among Broadcast Journalists

ABC News/Newsnation's Dan Abrams and local L.A. anchors Marc Brown, Colleen Williams and Pat Harvey look back at the O.J. Simpson story with mixed feelings about how it impacted TV news

“I’ve always had a little bit of guilt about the idea that the murderers of two innocent people helped start my career,” says Abrams, who was working for Court TV at the time. It was clear that this would be unlike any other story from the very beginning, when every network broke into its schedule to broadcast coverage of police pursuing Simpson in a white Ford Bronco on L.A. freeways. Because Judge Lance Ito allowed cameras in the courtroom, it was covered live nationally on CNN and Court TV, as well as locally on L.A.’s broadcast stations.

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