Michael J. Arlen, in The New Yorker (Oct. 31, 1977), 25 W. 43rd St.,

 
New York, N.Y. 10036.

There should-and could-be room on television for all kinds of news programs, says Arlen, the New Yorker's TV critic, but that is not the way television seems to work. "There are trends," he notes, "and the trends point to dollars." The dollars right now point to more "soft" news broadcasts.
Soft news-the "informational entertainment"...