News Corp., the parent company of HarperCollins and Fox Broadcasting, has announced that it is canceling the publication of O.J. Simpson's book If I Did It and the television special that was scheduled next week. In the television interview with publisher Judith Regan, Simpson discussed the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

In announcing the cancelation, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said the entire project was "ill-considered."

After the bombshell announcement last week that Simpson's book and television special amounted to "his confession," other networks claimed they had turned down the Simpson interview and several Fox television affiliates had chosen not to broadcast the special, which was scheduled for Nov. 27 and 29, at the end of sweeps week.

On the Fox News channel, which is also owned by News Corp., but a separately run business from the broadcast network, commentators were calling for the outright boycott of the book and the television special, as well as any advertisers who supported the TV interview.

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