Dominic L. Lasorsa, in Journalism Quarterly (Summer 1989), Univ. of S.C., 1621 College St., College of Journalism, Columbia, S.C. 29208-

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Liberal critics were hopping mad in 1987 when ABC broadcast its tedious seven-part miniseries, Amerika. The miniseries' grim depiction of life in a Soviet-occupied United States, they exclaimed, would turn the American people into raving anti-So- viet Rambos. Although Lasorsa, a profes- sor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, does not m...