It's hard to tell what was more offensive: that OJ Simpson wrote a book If I Did It, in which he imagines he committed the 1994 double murder of his ex-wife and her friend, or that ReganBooks' Judith Regan had planned to publish it and interview Simpson for TV, using her own alleged victimhood as the reason.

Victims' groups and the media immediately attacked Regan for trying to give Simpson another moment in the spotlight. She responded with a 2,200-word statement, ...