Author Barbara Ehrenreich argues that journalism does a poor job of covering poverty in part because it pays so little that would-be writers can't spend time on it: "This is the real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals who can’t muster up expenses to even start on the articles, photo-essays and videos they want to do, much less find an outlet to cover the costs of doing them."
January 5, 2016