"Bad News Bears" Robert Licliter and Ted J. Smith, in Media Critic (1993),P.O. Box 762, Bedminster, N.J. 07921.
Watching almost any batch of network televi- sion newscasts in recent years, one would come away feeling that the nation's economy was poised on the brink of ruin.

In fact, contend Lichter, codirector of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, and Smith, associate professor of mass comm~ini- cations at Virginia Commonwealth Univer- sity, the standard TV news portrait of t...