December 16, 2006
Judith Regan Canned
HarperCollins president and CEO Jane Friedman fired editor Judith Regan late-yesterday. The dismissal, which was announced while most employees were at the company Christmas party, comes after last month's O.J. Simpson book and Fox TV interview fiasco. Regan was the driving force behind the project, in which Simpson described how he might have hypothetically killed his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. After the project came under intense criticism, Rupert Murdoch, HarperCollins is owned by his News Corporation, was forced to cancel it and apologize. 400,000 books had to be destroyed.
The last straw for Regan may not have been the O.J. book but a forthcoming "biographical novel" about Mickey Mantle which, among much imaginary dialogue made up by author Peter Golenbeck, depicts imaginary scenes of the Yankees' great seducing with Marilyn Monroe, wife of his teammate Joe DiMaggio.
According to the Times it was not clear if Regan was fired from just HarperCollins or from the News Corp. entirely (Jossip is saying it is the latter).
As expected the Daily News is having a field day trashing Murdoch and Regan saying "The usually talkative Regan could not be reached for comment".
Photograph of Judith Regan at speaking during her Sirius satellite show by Richard Drew/AP
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Well she and Bernie Kerick have lots of time now to go for chinese food with Rudy and the udda Judy...what a pip!
Scum rises: how long before she signs on to a lucrative contract to do an interview show - TV or radio? Murdoch gave her all the publicity she needs.
Does Rupert Murdoch (the owner of HarperCollins) really believe that people are going to fall for this? Anyone with a brain in their head knows full well that HarperCollins did not produce 400,000 books on such a huge topic, without Rupert Murdoch knowing about it ahead of time.
It is clear that Judith Regan is being used as the scapegoat. It's the old,"fire someone to make us look angry over it too," game.
And why does the publisher that puts out the Satanic bible have a Christmas party? Go to www.HarperCollins.com and type in a search for "satanic bible." Click on the book, read what it is about. It is a total trashing of Christianity. Then ask yourself, why the place who OWNS the American rights to the NIV would put out the satanic bible too? Oh, while you are there, type in a search for porn too. Oh, he owns FOX too.
They are also who puts out the NIV bible--the blasphemous book that claims to be the word of God, when it is nothing more than a poorly written Bible commentary.(Zondervan is owned by HarperCollins. The NIV was written by the equivalent of a one world order team of writers. They wrote it for money. That is why the same place puts out both.)