The issue was sensationalism

While I ordinarily find Rachel Abramowitz’s prose to be unduly arch, I feel I must defend her against the ridiculous charge of racism leveled at her because of her recent story [“Not a Fair Comparison,” Letters, Oct. 26] on Clint Eastwood’s new film, “The Changeling.”

Abramowitz was comparing the sensationalism surrounding the real-life events upon which Eastwood’s film is based to the sensationalism surrounding the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and it’s a fair comparison. The Simpson case was in the national spotlight for months, as was the case of the missing Collins child.

The letter writer who read Abramowitz’s article and came away with a feeling that she made any statement, explicit or implicit, about African Americans, Simpson’s guilt or anything other than the media attention that both cases attracted, is seeing something that simply was not there.

Brett G. Hampton

Northridge