Well . . . Duuuuuuuhhhhh!
TV adds: "Fire Good!"
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It would probably be best to understand this in context, rather than in isolation. How does TV treat other institutions? I suspect that if a comprehensive study were conducted, it would conclude that TV is generally negative about a number of things:
The government
The police
The schools
Business
Both comedy and drama lend themselves toward negativity, so something isn’t going to be portrayed positively unless there is HUGE pressure on the TV networks to do so. For some reason, only a few things (driving while sober, diversity for diversity’s sake, etc.) elicit positive responses from TV.