“As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an NGO and say, "Tell me about the good work that you're doing and introduce me to the poor people who represent the kind of help you give." It serves to streamline the storytelling, but it gives you a lopsided cosmos in which almost every poor person you read about is involved with a NGO helping him. Our understanding of poverty and how people escape from poverty, in any country, is quite distorted.” PeopleGivingKindCountryHelpingUnderstandingPoorPovertyStorytellingIntroducingGood WorkPoor People Author:Katherine Boo
“My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change is to happen, it will be because people with power have a better sense of what’s happening to people who have none.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingLittlesHappensJobsPolicyHappeningsLaysJournalismPrescriptions Author:Katherine Boo
