Should Poverty Be Mentioned In The Media ?

More than 15 % of our Americans live in poverty today but you never hear coverage on the news about it, and its because a lot of people do not want show any interest in. Poverty and people work hard is not the mainstream news it is not something to make headline because it is not important enough. The news does not see people struggling day to day to make ends meet an issue but if someone killed numerous people because of poverty than it tends to make headlines. Poverty is just not important to the media outlets unless they can bring attention.

For example many of innocent struggling people gathered outside Wendy’s to protest for higher pay regarding fast food restaurants but no one bothered to capture that. These people stood outside all day in hopes of someone just listening and no cared to give him or her any attention. They were ignored and their pay rages have not changed but they have no choice but to return to work because the need to survive. They need the money to take care of their children even if it’s a lousy $7.25 an hour.  This was an issue affecting all our people who deal with minimum wage, citizens all across the world.

Now we think about the government shutdown between President Barack Obama and the GOP and it was the news coverage for weeks. It dominated headlines and news announcement because people could not believe the government would get shut down. Because everyone was talking about it, it was a thriving topic and it made headlines but because no one was talking about poverty it was not worthy of being mentioned. I am not saying that the government shutdown was not a big event because it most definitely is but is people not struggling and not being able to make ends meet on $7.25 an issue as well.

No one can say $7.25 can give a living because they’re many government assistance programs. These programs are being cut in front of us everyday. The House of Representatives passed a bill to cut 40 billion dollars from the SNAP program also known as food stamps. They are even making higher worker requirements and eliminating waivers. This will make the poorer people poorer because The House of Representatives need to dwindle the nations money. It is even sadder that this was not submitted into media coverage and many people are unaware that this will be going on. Poverty takes only 1% of the media in today’s society and it is not fair.

It is said that media do not cover poverty because people are uncomfortable. They do not want to be more depressed or accept their hardships. They want to ignore all the issues at hand. But is that true or do the government just want to sugar coat what’s going on. The people need to be aware what is going on and even if it make them uncomfortable they have to accept it for what it is. Ignoring it will not make it better so I disagree with that comment, I believe the government don’t want to admit the people need more help.

Do you believe the topic of poverty should be discussed more in the media?