Thursday, January 28, 2016

O.J. and CTE

I know we talked about both topics in first semester, but I find the coincidence that both have been very popular in the media recently to be very funny/cool, because I feel like I have so much knowledge about both from Global. We talked about how O.J. (the Juice) and how he was a football player, and we talked about CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy), but I can't recall ever putting the two together. From what we saw in the documentaries, CTE was a rejected topic, yet now there articles about it in magazines and online. In a new People magazine, upon reading an article about the O.J. case, there was a small subarticle titled "Could O.J. have CTE?" Also, this year there will be a new tv series coming out called "the People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story," which I think will be very interesting to see how things/people are portrayed, but also because in the last 20 years, there haven't really been any tv series or movies(other than documentaries) about the case. All in all, I think that we are lucky to have talked about both in depth in class, but I like how the media has brought attention recently to both topics so that others can be more informed.

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting! Did OJ commit those crimes because of CTE? How do you think the public would react if scientist discover that OJ has CTE? Would his actions be understood? Would people sympathize or maybe even forgive OJ?

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  2. Great article! Being a running back, he had a good chance of having CTE but it's funny how that wasn't brought up. Maybe that's why he broke down so much and seemed stressed.

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