The vicious cycle

After about two months of working to gather news for this site, I've realized something terrible: more than half of the stories I find in my searches are about homeless people committing crimes. Is that the best we can do? I challenge journalists to think outside the realm of what they know and start telling stories that can change how we think of the world of poverty. There are stories not being told here, people whose cries may never be heard, drowned in the white noise of stories about crime and drugs and politics and everything the impoverished cannot control.

Is anyone out there?

Labels: covering poverty, crime, homeless, journalism