Oliver Willis has it totally right...so The Moderate Voice will reproduce his comments then offer his own rant. First Oliver, one of the Internet's most perceptive liberal bloggers:

So I was watching Dateline's ratings-whore of an interview with OJ "Knife" Simpson last night, and I could barely keep down my lunch. Here's a guy who (literally) got away with murder and he's living the life of luxury down in Florida. What's even more disgusting is that he has essentially bought into the belief that he's the center of the universe, and sees nothing wrong with flaunting himself as a womanizer - even though that's the same macho path that set him on the road to murder.

OJ also has a very convenient "blackness". In the years before he was arrested, Simpson didn't exactly give back to the black community, but the minute he was hauled into jail -- and especially when slick Johnny Cochran became his lawyer -- OJ remembered he was black real quickly. For all the poor black men who are in jail for an inadequate defense, there are many OJs of all colors - rich guys who buy their way out of the fate they deserve.

Indeed, these are the two key issues at play here in the O.J. case. He's a guy who literally got off scott free and is living in (that horrible phrase used in divorces) "the style to which he is accustomed" -- a living example how $$$$ can buy or buy off justice...and that the race card works (Michael Jackson take note).

But TMV also worked in the media for many years and his heart is still very much in the media. And seeing how all the TV bigwigs are falling all over each other, and would be willing to slit their grandmother's throat (whoops! No offense OJ...), for the "get" of getting OJ on their show (read that GET RATINGS no matter what you have to do or what journalist principle you jettison) is enough to elicite The Immoderate Barf.

This isn't the first time the news media has exposed its "get" frenzy -- where the important thing is to get someone who's in the news on the show and do a segment with them, even with perfunctory "hard" questions that are merely to justify putting them on and getting the ratings.

A few months ago we were all "treated" to the contemptable interview Katie Couric had with New York Times serial fabricator Jayson Blair on the eve of the publication of his book. There was a lesson there, though: the shows with Blair got ratings but not as good as they hoped and you can buy large crates of Blair's fictional -- I mean biographical -- book to give out as cheap Xmas presents, since it didn't sell (despite Katie's and Larry King's best efforts).

The TV news and talk shows would insist they are not participating in the p.r. rehabilitation of O.J. Simpson but that is really what it is. A truly tough interview would end with OJ glaring angrily.

So he'll do his interviews, the news and talk shows will get their ratings, then OJ is free to go to eventually use his just rehabilitated notority to get involved in some money-making project in between his tireless search for wife Nicole's and Ron Goldman's "real" killers on golf courses and in fine restaurants throughout America.