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From: Jasper
Date: 9/11/04
Time: 12:33:18 PM
Remote Name: 69.212.51.213
Ludwig,
Yes, the real “Iago” took the Illusory “Othello’s” place. That’s what makes it so hard to see O.J. as Cassio and Fuhrman as Iago. The Brentwood crime scenes are saturated with subliminal messages, red herrings and illusions. There are so many of them packed together that it’s impossible to isolate them without the formulas the killer used to create them. With that in mind, the operative phrase in understanding Fuhrman’s ability to predict how the media would react to the evidence and to him is, “on the surface.”
News reporters report only what they see and hear that fits the time required for capturing and editing “news-worthy” pictures and sound bites. They have the attention span of fruit flies. Trying to have a conversation with electronic news media reporters or producers is like trying to watch TV on a monitor that switches channels every five or ten seconds. The instant you touch on something involving a little complexity and thought that reminds them of something simple and familiar the conversation goes there – not to the thing you mentioned in context but to the thing it reminds them of in THAT context. It is as though everything gets reduced to basic shapes (circles, triangles and rectangles), basic colors (red, blue and yellow) and two dimensions (height and width).
If your try to draw a figurative ellipse, it becomes a circle in the editing process. Orange becomes red. Depth gets deleted. Other things that have nothing to do with what you said get added. Your story about an orange Easter egg getting smaller in perspective as it rolls away from you down Rembrandt hill becomes a news story about a red dot on the canvas of a Rembrandt painting. This example is, of course, only an analogy and the exaggeration is obvious. The point is simply that news stories are predictable because reporters, producers and editors are predicable. They have formulas for everything that gets on the air or in print. Subtlety and depth are not in the formulas. Give them the obvious things that fit the formulas along with a bunch of stuff that doesn’t and they will give the world the formula stuff and the analogies that go with them every time.
Othello without Iago fits a formula. Adding Iago makes the story too complicated. If Fuhrman the racist doesn’t appear until O.J. the killer is firmly established in the media, his racism becomes a shied against charges of anything more serious. Even suggesting that he should be investigated as a murder suspect makes YOU the person obsessed with race. Take away the subtleties and the depth involved in concluding that Fuhrman should be considered a murder suspect and that’s what you become. You said it yourself: Sherlock Holmes, regardless of his flaws, couldn’t have done it. --Jasper