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 [log in to unmask]