Posted on 12/16/2006 9:31:11 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
Judith Regan, the firebrand editor who stirred up decade-old passions last month with her plans for a book and television interview with O. J. Simpson, was fired late Friday by HarperCollins, the publishing company that oversaw her book business. HarperCollins announced the dismissal, “effective immediately,” in a two-sentence news release that was issued at about 7 p.m. Eastern time. The announcement was made by Jane Friedman, president and chief executive of HarperCollins, who has long had a strained relationship with Ms. Regan. The Simpson book was to give an account of how he might have murdered his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald L. Goldman. The statement said that the Regan publishing program and staff will continue as part of the HarperCollins General Books Group, but it is unknown whether that group will remain in Los Angeles, where Ms. Regan moved it from New York earlier this year.
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Serves her right.
I'm sure the NYC elitist tramp can find solace in the arms of some married public figure.
Now she can write her own book:
If We Published It
Good one.
...Los Angeles, where Ms. Regan moved it from New York earlier this year.
Well, at least she's not a New Yorker any more...
Didn't she have something to do with Rush's first book?
Ya know, I'm sorry she did slightly suffer abuse- but her case in no way compared with victims who truly suffered abuse much worse than she did, and for her to take it upon herself to exploit suffering for her own gain at the expense of true victims was despicable! http://sacredscoop.com
Simpson keeps the advance, so Regan put a million in a murderer's pocket.
And I can write my reply: "If I read it."
I wonder if the Brown family will be able to stake a claim on that money as part of the settlement won against him?
If the public hadn't reacted so strongly she would have gotten a bonus. The book was almost a done deal. They don't get that far without some approval other than the author's. She's a scapegoat.
I've been wondering that very thing. I admit I know next to nothing about her and have made up my mind that is a great course of action. I love it when the best thing is to do nothing. I'm too old to take on every issue. How OJ leads such a public life and avoids being shot though is beyond me. He'll spend eternity is a very hot climate. That's good enough for me.
Yeah Limbaugh's books, Hannity's book, General Tommy Frank's book etc. These books indicate to me that she is a risk taker, publishing books that typical publishers will not look at. It seems pretty natural that someone like that would have taken on the OJ project.
And this sounds like scapegoating her to me too. I bet the OJ book was the excuse to get her but the association with the Limbaugh, Hannity etc books were more the underlying reason.
But I also expect she will more than fall on her feet.
Not really. It was her idea and she stood to gain by it.
She bet big and lost. It's too late to go to upper management crying, "Why did you listen to me?"
You are right that she did stand to gain - but book deals don't get that close without upper management's approval.
I'm conflicted. On the one hand, the OJ book was beyond the pale, Hollywood celebrity worship and reality TV taken to gruesome lengths.
On the other hand, she was damned near the only big shot in the publishing business who could take a conservative book and make a go of it. HarperCollins is not exactly an ardent publisher of conservative books.
I hope she sets up shop for herself and publishes a few more books that fly in the face of the liberal establishment. She reminds me of Oprah Winfrey: mostly a force for good, bitten by the postmodernist publicity bug, which drains out traditional wisdom and replaces it with the ability to ride the celebrity waves. Yet that's the only kind of personality that seems to be able to reach a large audience these days.
Just like only someone like Mel Gibson was crazy enough to persuade the whole world to watch "The Passion of the Christ," riding the celebrity wave at the same time that he spat in its eye.
Word was that Simpson evaded paying the Browns for reasons that aren't clear to me.
I agree.
But if one bad decision out of the hundreds made by upper management is cause for their firing, there would quickly be no upper management.
Yes, I understand that before the trial his funds were put into a retirement account, which cannot be attached. But with this being new income, then I would expect that they would have a claim to it.
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