Media impact on the O.J. trial

There is a very anti-O.J. bias in the media coverage on television and that prevents a neutral evaluation of the case. Sports writer Jason Whitlock wrote in his NFL column for FoxSports.com that the television media is poisoning the jury pool for the O.J. Simpson armed robbery trial by perpetuating the obsession with Simpson in order to attract viewers. The coverage is overshadowing other, and in Whitlock's opinion, more important stories like the "Jena Six" case. Whitlock's arguments also seem to hold true for online coverage of the Simpson case.
CNN.com ran an Associated Press article that puts together a potential series of events for the Las Vegas robbery compiled from interviews and police reports. The article does make clear that the sides disagree on what happened, but the story spends more time focused on the arguments that make Simpson look bad. The media has to be responsible and acknowledge that all are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and stop trying to convict Simpson in the court of public opinion.