O.J.'s bail session provides PR for his attorney

O. J. Simpson’s activities yesterday in Las Vegas grabbed more media coverage --- on the ground and from the air --- than his famous slow-speed chase in a white Ford Bronco on a Los Angeles freeway a decade ago, notes Grumpy Editor. 

Local and national newspapers, NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox broadcast networks, local TV channels, plus cable news networks and radio had news crews on the scene to report developments with his bail, set at $125,000 stemming from multiple charges including kidnapping and armed robbery.

Even radio station KFI, Los Angeles, got a publicity boost via TV footage of its microphone, strategically placed at a makeshift podium, at an outside news conference with Simpson’s Las Vegas and Florida attorneys.

Simpson departed Sin City yesterday afternoon, without talking to media, to return to his Florida home.  The Heisman Trophy winner spent three nights in jail and is due back in Las Vegas court on Oct. 22.

The morning news conference focused on Yale Galanter who emphasized he was Simpson’s official attorney.  It also provided live national PR for Galanter who worked in his Florida background and that he handles a number of similar cases every month.

With noise from a circling helicopter blotting out ability to hear media questions, Galanter also took a swipe at Fox News, saying “putting people on without facts is deplorable,” a reference to the many talking heads on camera.

He indicated that October’s court date for Simpson in Las Vegas conflicts with another case that takes him to Washington D.C. around that time for two months and a likely trial would not get under way until next year.