it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem no matter what. - vehicle registration, please. - just a sec. but the thing is, officer, this isn t my car. - there s the episode i remember where they get pulled over in a car. - what? - he s gonna tell us to get out of the car. - you watch too much tv, will. - get out of the car. - they have an interaction with a police officer that is horrible and racist in a lot of ways. and carlton has this epiphany about how money won t save him. - no map is gonna save you. and neither is your glee club or your fancy bel air address or who your daddy is. cause when you re driving in a nice car in a strange neighborhood, none of that matters. they only see one thing. - the writers of the fresh prince of bel air had a really hard task to approach these topics with nuance and were doing it at a clip that was way ahead of their time. - now, don t touch that dial.
police believe that. that o.j. simpson is in that car. - the o.j. simpson story starts with the chase and then goes on to his arrest and then culminates with the trial, which goes on and on and on. and it s televised day after day after day. - this is gonna be a long trial. there s a lot of evidence to come in. the o.j. simpson case was such a national phenomenon that those of us who were covering it just lived this case 24 hours a day because there was so much demand for people talking about it. - as simpson struggled to slide the gloves onto his hands and turned toward jurors, saying, they re too small, prosecutors were incensed. - the trial was on television during the hours that had traditionally been the time for soap operas. - he appears to have pulled the gloves off, counsel. - and o.j. was very much a soap opera. - he is impeached by his own witness.
got up to 15 years in prison for shooting the wife of her alleged lover. - so intense is the interest in this case that there are three three made-for-tv movies now in the works about it. - you make money off sex. you make money off death. you make money off crime. - the press calls the case the beverly hills mansion murders. and the story reads like one of the unsold scripts that circulate here in hollywood. - we enter into the world of the television news soap opera. - a story of basic instincts, anger, and fear. - i was scared and i just wanted him to leave me alone. - and so broadcast journalism loses its purity and it becomes much more shoddy, sensationalistic. and then it all comes together with o.j. simpson. [dramatic orchestral music] - i m larry carrol in los angeles. the los angeles county district attorney has just filed murder charges against orenthal james o.j. simpson. - okay, i m gonna have to interrupt this call. i understand we re gonna go to a live picture in los a
- a new era of technology and competition is forcing network news operations to reexamine the way they do business. - new owners spent billions buying the networks recently, ge buying nbc; capital cities, abc; and loews/tisch brothers buying cbs. and all of them want their money s worth. - we ll now have the strongest network, we ll have a stronger defense piece. this is gonna be one dynamite company. - there s a danger that news will be mixed up with the rest of television and considered just another profit center. - late 1920s/early 1930s to the early 1980s, the sense was, we ll give some of the broadcasting time to public service. but in the 1990s, journalism in the country changed a great deal. you couldn t talk about public service. it was, what are the ratings going to be? what are the demographics going to be? what is the profit going to be? well, sensationalism sells. - in a plea bargain, 18-year-old amy fisher
and they were sort of feeling their power. - i said olive. bad waiter, bad waiter. - what do you tip for that? - i wanted these women to be objectifying their men in the way that men had always objectified women. - all righty. my turn. - oh, sorry. i have to go back to work. - you didn t used to be able to discuss sex as sex on network shows. there never were people talking about orgasms or organs or sex. - okay, words are essential. tell me exactly how he worded it. - we ve been seeing each other for a couple of weeks. i really like you, and tomorrow night after dinner, i want us to have anal sex. - these are women who shared everything with each other. and they re discussing what anal sex means. - if he goes up there, there s gonna be a shift in power. either he ll have the upper hand, or you will. - and should she do this or not? - this is a physical expression that the body was well, it was designed to experience. and p.s., it s fabulous.