THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, February 25, 1995 TAG: 9502250192
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
LENGTH: Short : 25 lines
Ninety percent of the North Carolinians questioned in a public opinion poll released Friday said they thought there had been ``too much'' newspaper and television coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
The heavy majority included an essentially equal mix of whites and blacks
But on the issue of fairness of the trial, voters in the Mason-Dixon survey split along racial lines.
By a 45 percent to 32 percent margin, white voters said the media coverage of the trial had been fair. Black respondents by a margin of 57 percent to 18 percent said it was not fair.
N.C. voters split more sharply on O.J.'s guilt or innocence: 65 percent of whites said they thought Simpson was guilty, while 6 percent said he wasn't. Among African Americans, 57 percent to 18 percent said he was not guilty.
KEYWORDS: POLL by CNB