While I don't wish to avoid the domestic violence issue it seems obvious to me: OJ is guilty of longstanding, documented, repeated and heinous abuse.There should be mandatory criminal sentences, and he should be imprisoned for it. The larger question, and perhaps more salient to this group is the media question: do we want this level of media saturation? When I first saw OJ's white jeep from the helicopter's point of view that first nite, vying for attention with the basketball playoffs on a TV at a bar, I thought my mind was going. And now, to find the evening news preempted because of the *pre*trial hearing? What has happened to us? Do we really want all this coverage or are they telling us what we want? Is it the classic media imperialism that goes something like: "we're giving them what they want not what *we* the news guru's know is important." Without the end of commercialism of the air waves this problem willnot go away. It will worsen. And the Orwellian aspects only intensify. As we early cyberspace neophytes know, there's no end to this ...it's only the beginning. Would the riots in LA a few years ago have happened in their full intensity without the presence of video? I suspect that OJ will walk free because there is not one potential juror who has not been effected by the coverage.