1 [Newspaper] coverage is, of course, always supportive of sports itelf and of the home team in particular. There is no pretense of objectivity. It is all part of the ideological ground for other civic goals, including the successful competition of cities for growth-inducing functions. Professional teams serve many latent social functions . . . ; sustaining the growth ideology is clearly one of them (Logan and Molotch 1987, p. 81 and the preceding discussion, pp. 79-81). 2 "Normal" camera lenses (approx. 48-55 mm) more closely reproduce the relative distance and size relationships seen by the eye. Telephoto and long focal length lenses shorten the apparent distance between objects, and lessen the relative size of objects (e.g. a building in the foreground and another in the background will appear to be closer in size and closer together than with a normal focal length lens).