An other interesting aspect of TV coverage of the Simpson's case is
television news's self-reflexivity about its own coverage.
Self-reflexivity, of course, is not new in TV.  What is new, I think, is the
Tv news anchor's reference to and analysis of their own coverage of the
case WITHOUT implicating themselves as organizations or individuals
involved in the coverage.  This is a disembodied form of self-reflexivity
that tends to undermine the progressive politics of
self-reflexivity.  Here is another example of cooptation and
depoliticization of the so-called alternative disocurses.
 
--Hamid Naficy
Media Studies
Rice University
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