As the person who started this little tempest with a too-generally worded message, I want to say that much of what has been posted in the past few days about the ways images of athletes have been constructed by TV coverage has been quite interesting, and totally appropriate to the purposes of this list. What I was reacting to was a spate of Tonya Harding jokes and some speculations about the character of another athlete that really had nothing to do with media studies, and would have been much more appropriate on alt-gossip. As more people get on the internet and join these discussions, we are in danger of being inundated in inappropriate messages if we don't set some minimal standards and try to abide by them. Stephen Brophy