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Michael Socolow

@MichaelSocolow

Communication & Journalism, University of Maine
2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra
Tweets=my own opinions

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'By the logic of the chant'?
There is *no* logic: That's the point.
It's trolling.
They're making fun of the left's peace activists, while simultaneously borrowing their funny alliterative insult.
This has nothing at all to do with Israel or Gaza, which they don't care about.

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Craigslist generated about $660 million in revenue last year, and it employs about 50 people.

That's how you run a media company.

aimgroup.com/2022/02/07/cra…

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The number of outstanding Canadian journalists who moved to the U.S. to enrich our broadcast journalism is amazing.

Robert MacNeil. Peter Jennings. Morley Safer.

RIP to MacNeil, who on November 22, 1963 was at the right place at the right time (the journalist's ideal).

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RIP to a great one.

On November 22, 1963, Robert (Robin) MacNeil jumped out of the press bus and was dashing up the steps of the Texas Book Depository to call NBC about Kennedy being shot... when he passed Lee Harvey Oswald on his way out.

nytimes.com/2024/04/12/bus…

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Not true.

O.J.'s defense had a very effective counter to all the DNA evidence prosecutors presented.

His name was Dr. Henry Lee, M.D. & the jury later admitted his testimony destroyed the DNA argument(s).

Also: Google ''Kerry Mullis' 'OJ Simpson''

law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projec…

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On the gloves:
Yes, wet leather gloves will shrink when dry. But we know now that's not it. The defense later admitted instructing Simpson to stop taking his arthritis meds, so his hands would swell, during the trial.
The guy was an actor, too.
But the glove truly didn't fit.

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This place just keeps getting worse.

The pile of manure keeps growing taller and taller, and morons like me stay here shoveling because we still think there's got to be a pony somewhere in there.

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Everyone on Twitter should know 'Brandolini's Law' [a/k/a 'the bullshit asymmetry principle']:

'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolin…

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'The trial helped persuade Rupert Murdoch into launching Fox News. Socolow said the Australian media mogul “grew enraged” watching CNN founder Ted Turner “rake in” an estimated $200 million from the live coverage of Simpson’s trial.'

cnn.com/2024/04/12/med…

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What I find particularly pernicious about the viral fake tweet claiming OJ Simpson assaulted white women at USC (& USC covered it up) is that it leverages feminism to exacerbate racial tension.

It's obviously phony, but its reliance on the Black male rapist trope is horrific.

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Always fascinated me that the 1969 Buffalo Bills had the future Republican nominee for Vice Presidency of the United States (1996) playing QB & America's most famous accused murderer at running back.
At least the Bills' dilemma when they make it back to the Super Bowl is resolved

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PSA: There's a viral tweet about OJ Simpson & violence towards white women at USC in the 1960s going around right now. It purports to be from somebody released from an NDA signed in 1995.

**It's not real**

Social media reminder: 'No Links? Not News!'

nytimes.com/2018/03/22/opi…

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There's no corroborating evidence for this story.
What high-level administrator at a major university would share this incredibly sensitive information with a *student* worker and risk their job and career?
Show them the check?
It doesn't make sense.

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I wrote this 10 years ago, on 20th anniversary of O.J. Simpson trial:

'Squeezing Juice': What it felt like in CNN's LA newsroom during the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase.

medium.com/@MichaelSocolo…

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“I always had a little bit of guilt over the idea that two people brutally murdered helped make my career.”
-Legal analyst Dan Abrams

latimes.com/entertainment-…

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Michael Socolow I was discussing the topic with my Media Ethics class today- we reflected on how different news coverage of the would have been if social media was around during that time. Both the positives AND the negatives.

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Perhaps a mystery will now be solved:
Did O.J. Simpson have C.T.E.?
His enormous head (he wore a custom 8 1/4 helmet, bigger than any standard NFL size) was violently & consistently hit for a decade.
Other NFL players w/ giant heads likely had C.T.E.
espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

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