How Kato Kaelin Feels About The Media Today

As a close personal friend of the Simpsons and a primary witness in the trial, the media spun many stories about Kaelin at the height of the controversy surrounding the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In a 2014 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Kaelin expressed his disappointment with how fast and loose some corners of the media played with the truth, calling out some publications that went so far as to implicate him in the crime.

Kaelin wrote, "The National Examiner published a cover story declaring, 'Cops Think Kato Did It.' You probably remember the headline and maybe even believed it. What you might not know is I took them to court, and a federal appeals court found that headlines can be considered libel even if the story itself is not defamatory. But in the court of public opinion, I had already lost."

Kaelin even mentioned an article from those days that included full quotes from him, from an interview he claims never even took place. "At the grocery store checkout line you're bombarded with magazine covers shouting, 'He cheated with her' and 'She slept with him' or 'He slept with them,'" he wrote, adding, "Maybe people feel better about their own lives when they can relish someone else's pain."

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