“I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.” KnowsChildrenMadePovertyMediaGrewGrew UpNeighborhoodDeprived Author:Ving Rhames
“The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.” IfsWantHumansPovertyConditionsMediaInvolvedNewsMiseryHuman ConditionReportersNews Media Author:Barbara Walters
“It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.” FactsPovertyMediaMassMiseryEverydayPlentyEveryday LifeTormentDeprivationAffluenceMass Media Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.” PeopleHumansEasyPoorViewsPovertyMediaObjectsConflictDignityPityAgencyLackingPoor PeopleBadassHuman DignityPersonal DignityAmerican Media Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.” ThinkingSeemsFaithReligiousMoralPovertyIssuesMediaGayAbortionGay MarriageMoral Issues Author:Jim Wallis