food. But it could be, as one former "big three" editor puts it, that readers simply did not care for the pabulum that the newsmagazines were dishing out in the first place.

"Economic News on Television: The Determinants of Cover-

The Bad News

age" David E. Harrington, in Public Opinion Quarterly Bias (Spring- 1989), Univ. of Chicago Press, P.O. BOX 37005, Chicago,
111. 60637.

As a rule, good news is no news in the minds of many journalists.
That formula certainly seems...