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I wonder if the TV industry is planning to give Emmy awards in a couple of new categories—Best News Segment on the Impact of Administration Budget Cuts on the Lame, the Halt, and the Blind, and Best Cameo Performance by a Welfare Mama. If so, the competition is certainly going to be intense. Hardly an evening passes without a poverty tear-jerker on at least one of the three network news programs.

A new sub-genre has been added this winter: the Plight of the Homeless. This one seems to have been launched not by the regular news shows but by 60 Minutes. Ed Bradley did a bit on the gents of the Bowery, and the next thing you knew the Homeless had become the staple of the local news too, at least in New York and Philadelphia.

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I wonder if the TV industry is planning to give Emmy awards in a couple of new categories—Best News Segment on the Impact of Administration Budget Cuts on the Lame, the Halt, and the Blind, and Best Cameo Performance by a Welfare Mama. If so, the competition is certainly going to be intense. Hardly an evening passes without a poverty tear-jerker on at least one of the three network news programs.

A new sub-genre has been added this winter: the Plight of the Homeless. This one seems to have been launched not by the regular news shows but by 60 Minutes. Ed Bradley did a bit on the gents of the Bowery, and the next thing you knew the Homeless had become the staple of the local news too, at least in New York and Philadelphia.