Well, here we are, only two days before the biggest feast of the year and I submit that we have something to be incredibly thankful for. There is some glimmer of hope at the end of the long dark tunnel of American morality.

The O.J. Simpson book and television special, which had been set for the all-important November sweeps viewing period on Fox, have been cancelled.

According to an AP News story, after a firestorm of criticism News Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and Fox TV special, cryptically titled "If I Did It." (I’m not saying I did, but ...)

Chairman Rupert Murdoch called it “ill-considered.” Perhaps that’s the same term all the Enron execs and Jack Abramoff are now using to describe their lapse of morality—also known as greed, and this year rewarded with turkey and fixings in jail.

While those convicts will be barred from profiting from their crimes with tell-all books, Simpson has no such limit set against him because he was only found guilty in a civil trial. So Judith Regan of ReganBooks, a media relative of News Corp., decided to publish Simpson’s pseudo-memoir this year.

Regan justified the book’s publication because the money was all going to Simpson’s kids and the book would out Simpson as the real killer. Of course, she said that after being hit with harsh criticism, even from her publishing peers. Then, something unprecedented happened—something that never happens in the publishing industry—the book was cancelled.

The most disgusting, evil, wrong, false and sometimes even plagiarized books do not get cancelled. Yet here is the page on Amazon now listing the Simpson book as unavailable.

I don’t know what you’ll be thanking God for this Thursday as you sit down to eat your turkey dinner. But I’ll be grateful for the glimmer of hope I have seen in this about face from the media—usually bent on exploitation and raking in profits by any means—to draw a line in the sand.

Here is what one television executive told AP after he refused to air the Simpson special even before the network pulled it: “I have my own moral compass and this was easy," said Bill Lamb, general manager of WDRB in Louisville.

I thanked Mr. Lamb for that decision. He is a perfect sermon illustration for a message about discipleship. Do your congregation members have a moral compass? Do they make decisions not based on greed, but on the laws of God and the love of Christ? Do you?

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