In a cover story on crack (11/28/88), Newsweek tells us that the residents of America's "Crack Nation" are both poor and black and white and middle class. Yet when I looked at the pictures, conspicuously missing were the white and middle-class residents that Newsweek assured me also lived there. The blacks were profiled in the usual flattering postures that the media delight in showing us. They were in handcuffs, stretched out on the ground, spread-eagle against a wall, in court, marching off to prisons and drug wards. The media have made it abundantly clear that, except for a stray Asian [...]