O. J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality

Or as I like to call it, "O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: New B.S. for the Acquisition of Tenure."

What Hunt provides is an explanation about why blacks and whites disagreed about the OJ Simpson trial, getting at the underlying assumptions different groups took into the trial and examining how the media played on these assumptions. Actually, he's more sophisticated than simply discussing "blacks and whites," noting divisions within these categories and at times challenging them. He uses a range of methods, including communciations theory, focus groups, quantitative analysis, etc. Much more sophisticated than most of the stuff out there on the trial and its larger meaning.