MitchellSteele

Today in class we got the oppertunity to watch some videos. One was from the onion on-line, which was a really good paradoy of televison newscast. As i was watching this video the first thing I thought about was the OJ white Bronco in LA during the 1994 NBA Finals. I remember watching the game on NBC with my dad and some friends. We were all pretty annoyed that they were showing the game on a small part of the screen and showed the car chase in the majority of the screen. Then no one really knew what OJ was going to do, Kill himself while his boy-AL Cowlings drove, were they gonna try and run for the border, NO. They drove to OJ's house were the cops then arrested him for the murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend. I wasn't able to watch the Knicks/Rockets because of a car chase, I was pissed. Anyways I remember thinking about the chase some time later when I was reading FAHRENHEIT 451, and thinking about the end of the book where Guy Montag is running and the cops are chasing him and the tv helicopters and broadcasting him on all the tv-like OJ and Al running from the cops-all while driving under the speed limit. Like Dr. Jerz mentioned that would have the been time to rob LA-during the OJ chase-too many cops for that poor old running back. Anyways as much as that video from the Onion was a paradoy-its not that far from the truth, sometimes the tv news is so new and quick, they don't know the story and make it up as they go.