The media mourn a murderer

If you glanced at the headlines from the legacy media outlets about the death of Orenthal James Simpson this week, you might think that he was a famous football player who overcame a racist judicial system instead of the murderer he was.

Simpson infamously killed his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. A Los Angeles jury acquitted him of this heinous crime in 1995 in what was widely recognized as a miscarriage of justice but celebrated by the local African American community as a sort of payback for the Rodney King riots of 1992.