Who is Alex Murdaugh?

Until recently I had never heard of him.  And:

1)  Why would I want to watch his murder trial?  It's borrrring.

2)  Why do the cable news channels spend most of the daytime and half of the nighttime covering it?

3)  When will my TV be returned to normal coverage?

Cable news is obsessed with crime and scandal involving wealthy white people. 

If I owned one of these news channels, I would program anything other than this just so I would not have all that much competition for advertising dollars.  The over coverage is just stupid.

Yeah - it isn't like this guy is OJ.  Court TV used to be good for this - too bad that went away.

I guess it's rare for someone to take a stand like this - but not worth the coverage it's getting.  Maybe it will end today?

The news channels are guilty of first-degree Murdaugh.

From wiki

The Murdaugh family (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/ ronunciation_respelling_key" title="Helpronunciation respelling key" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MUR-dok)^[1]is a prominent American legal family in the Low Country region of South Carolina. From 1920 to 2006, three members of the family consecutively served as solicitor (i.e., district attorney), in charge of prosecuting all criminal cases in the state's 14th circuit district, leading locals to call the five-county district, "Murdaugh Country". The family also founded a nationally recognized civil litigation law firm in Hampton, South Carolina that specializes in personal injury litigation.

Since 2014, Richard "Alex" Murdaugh and other members of the Murdaugh family have been involved in investigations involving several murders, corruption, and other alleged crimes, including insurance fraud, defrauding clients, theft of insurance payouts, and drug-related charges. In 2019, amid allegations of special treatment, Alex's son, Paul Murdaugh, and other members of the Murdaugh family were implicated in a fatal boating accident. In June 2021, Alex Murdaugh's wife and son Paul were murdered. Alex has been charged with their murders.^[2] Alex was also accused of embezzlement from his law firm, from which he resigned in September 2021. He has been incarcerated since October 2021 pending trials and has been disbarred by the state of South Carolina Bar. The murder trial of Alex Murdaughbegan in January 2023.

I first heard about this family on dateline last year. This guy is a C piece of trash. I think his housekeeper mysteriously died in his home and he collected some insurance money from her death. Her family has a separate case against him for fraud, and also could be murder. 

mrmaplewood said:

Until recently I had never heard of him.  And:

1)  Why would I want to watch his murder trial?  It's borrrring.

2)  Why do the cable news channels spend most of the daytime and half of the nighttime covering it?

3)  When will my TV be returned to normal coverage?

I agree. This was a major story on NBC’s evening news last night.

I commented to my wife that this was the sort of thing that used to be on Dateline.

Makes me glad I haven’t really watched TV news in about 20 years.

I know how we can solve this situation.  Find OJ's glove and we can know the outcome for sure and stop this nonsense.

Anyone who doesn't get the reference, google it.  (My, how time flies.)

mrmaplewood said:

I know how we can solve this situation.  Find OJ's glove and we can know the outcome for sure and stop this nonsense.

Anyone who doesn't get the reference, google it.  (My, how time flies.)

I think Murdaugh’s hands are smaller than OJ’s…

jimmurphy said:

I agree. This was a major story on NBC’s evening news last night.

I commented to my wife that this was the sort of thing that used to be on Dateline.

The news channels are guilty of first-degree Rupert Murdaugh.