Vindication: A reader writes

Here at p3, we get a lot of letters like this one:

Dear p3:

What I want to see most--for myself, for my country, and most of all for my children yet unborn--is the mainstream media, popular culture, and our system of justice handcuffing themselves together at the wrists and ankles and leaping off the high board of mindless spectacle into the cesspool of cynical, degrading, commercially driven exploitation.

Can my family and I look forward to this happening anytime soon?

L.W.
Muncie IN

Dear L.W.:

Why yes. Yes you can.

The only man with the chops to replace Peter Lupus as Nordberg is now the only man who can make the Fox News Channel network more of a sad joke than it already is:

The two-part television interview, titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29 on Fox, the TV network said Tuesday.

"O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," the network said in a statement. "In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade."

Seriously now: Why in heaven's name would this be allowed to happen? As for Fox's motives, we can only darkly wonder. O.J.'s motives, on the other hand, are probably a little more transparent:

Perhaps this is indeed a test to see whether Simpson can make his big return. Yes, I said return. Since the day he was cleared, Simpson has said that he would get back all that he had lost--his career as a sportscaster, his career doing major sponsorship endorsements.

He said he would get all that back, "in spades."

Coming on Fox for February sweeps: Michael Jackson, in the definitive interview: "Did I Lay a Hand on Those Kids? Absolutely Not--But Let's Suppose For A Moment That I Did."

[Update: The O.J. interview will be aired on the Fox broadcast network, not the Fox News Channel. Everyone here at p3 deeply, deeply regrets the error.]