The voices of photographers and other visual-crafts workers rarely are heard in public discourse about local television news. All rank-and-file newsworkers potentially face reprisals resulting in shortened or blighted careers if they participate openly in assessing and criticizing the medium. A fresh examination of these newsworkers' views and morale is important because they have largely been neglected, but also for another reason: continuing economic pressures on broadcast outlets are affecting all crafts. Eighteen stations supplied 963 questionnaires through mail boxes or other informal routes to non-management staff members across all news crafts; 145 forms (15 percent) were returned. The form employed 26 questions to establish each respondent's basis for entering local TV news and specific characteristics of that first job and posed 34 questions to determine comparative characteristics of the respondent's current job and his or her outlook on the industry and its future. Results showed that workers in this study have a gloomy picture of their jobs. Since their entry into the field, most have seen changes in television news and say their impact tends to be negative. Photojournalists in particular are critical of "live shots" as poorly motivated, and find ratings pressure in conflict with their ethics. Visual craft newsworkers have neutral-to-negative news of their newscasts as journalism and suspect the public rates them similarly. There is some evidence to suggests that photojournalists make greater demands on their newscasts' journalistic performance than do even reporters. (Contains 2 tables of data and 31 references.) (TB)