What does it take to make poverty an important news story?
Human beings are quite emotional by their nature. They show sympathy and concerns to poor people and in many parts of the globe, number of people try to help those are suffering. This character of human beings creates interest among them to watch different issues related to human life and sufferings etc. The different stories on poverty catch a lot of audience and I think this is one of the reasons people make poverty an important news story. Besides that some journalists have real concerns and sympathy for the poor people also, so they try to make news stories on it and bring the attention of the globe to it. This resulted in different types of helps for the poor sections of the society.
Let us list out what are the situations that leads to poverty or that identify poverty or can be called as the indicators of poverty. The list may be like this
1. People who are starving for food, not getting two square meals a day
2. Good percentage of children suffering from malnourishment
3. People below the poverty line
4. People affected with HIV/AIDs and other deadly diseases, health related problems
5. People continuously facing drought and famine
6. After math of severe natural calamities like cyclone, earthquake
7. people not getting safe and adequate potable water
8. Child abuse, child labour, child marriage, child trafficking
I think the list will go on and on. Do not you think news on these entire subjects is important and all the people will listen this, read this and watch this? I think yes..it catches a lot of audience.
Again in some countries the suffering of the people justifies the poor performance of the elected government. This gives stories for the opposition to create public pressure on the government. So such news works in both the way-we can compare it as a sword with two blades. Some times the government develop measures to address such issues and people get the benefit and sometimes the government fall down and in the next election the opposition comes to power.
Literally after free trade, globalization we all become the global citizen. So the sufferings of people in different part of the globe reach the global citizens through news story only. Then the development organizations get the scope to work for the betterment of the people. I work in a development organization and I have seen people of different countries are sponsoring the poor families and children of different countries for their betterment. So such news stories definitely bring and generate fund for the poor people.
The most important thing is that now the world is again becoming the living space of “haves” and “have nots”. In one book “The Ethics of Development” I read that the top 225 richest people of the world possess wealth equal to the annual income of the poorest 47% of the world’s people. This is going to create a big problem in near future in the world. So this situation is also creating foundations to make poverty an important news today.
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