That's interesting, I said. Continue. Bosco, after looking around to see if anyone in the cafeteria was eavesdropping, told me that during one of his many journalistic investigations, he interviewed a state prison convict who alleged that in January 1994, he had been hired by a "very close associate of OJ.'s" to follow Nicole Brown Simpson and then to shoot her to death.... I told Bosco that this imprisoned felon doesn't sound like a very credible witness. Bosco conceded the point but said he had corroborating evidence, which he declined to share with me.
I asked the district attorney's office about it. Spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons replied, "From time to time, Joe Bosco has contacted various people in the district attorney's office claiming to have information on a variety of cases. On those occasions he has been referred to the appropriate investigative agencies."
As Bosco sees it, the D.A.'s office has damaged his credibility and he wants to redeem his honor. Who knows how far the redoubtable Bosco will go with this one?
["The Man With the Bloodied Nose for News," by Bill Boyarsky, Los Angeles Times, Jan 12, 1998.]
I don't know how far Bosco went with that one. But his honor is still a serious matter to him, and six years later, blogs ("web logs," a new mass phenomenon akin to public diaries) are his vehicle for defending it.
Coming upon a mild criticism by fellow blogger Adam Morris, Bosco swoops in:
My, my, a little testy today, eh? Why so dismissive of my piece? And why do you pat yourself on the back so publicly when the good people at China Digital News linked to my post and Mr. McCarthy's, not to you?
Bosco has come far from L.A. He's discovered China — and, like many Western teachers before him, prestige.
The Chinese crave insight into the West. Students spend many years doing bloody battle with the English language. And very few of them would be likely to notice when Bosco's dignified phrasings occasionally surmount his grammar ("I am writing this in the apartment ... which you visited with Ellen and I"). Western teachers are a scarce commodity, and the Chinese are happy simply hearing a true Western speaker's inflections.
Chinese university administrators encounter a range of eccentricities among the foreigners they hire, but if a teacher exhibits nothing worse than self-importance, they have no problem lavishing nourishment to a degree the teacher will seldom have experienced before.
Some simple problems that beset a foreigner in China are unaccountably intractable. But flattery is free, and administrators are glad to serve it to a teacher who cooperates and believes the things he's supposed to believe, or at least acts like he does.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
that was one hell of a tale Uriel, thanks. Your relationship with Bosco reminds me a bit of my dealings with Andrew Sullivan a few years ago.
2 - Angelina Fiorentino
I would personally like to thank Joe Bosco for writing the fascinating book A Problem Of Evidence. I am glad someone had the balls to straight out say the truth about the Brown Family. (The Family Brown Ch. 12) I feel so sorry for Nicole Brown Simpson having been sold out by her family for OJ's money. And then they have the nerve, ESPECIALLY Denise Brown, to start a charity, that has been underfire by the IRS, under their murdered sister's name. Now she's the big DV expert? Denise Brown is the biggest phoney!
I have followed this case since the day I heard about the murders, I saw Denise Brown mouthing off to every tv show and the family selling Nicole's Diary, Nude Pictures (sold by sister Dominique), everything of Nicole's for In My Opinion, blood money!