September 8th, 2007
A new media study has found that ABC, CBS, and NBC excluded the opinions of poor people from their coverage of poverty issues. “The study found that poor people’s opinions on the causes and solutions to poverty were absent in most coverage. Poor people were mainly included only to tell anecdotal stories of suffering, before the networks turned to “experts” who discussed what policies should be pursued to address the situation.”
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