Nice piece by Tom Clark in today's Guardian on media attitudes to poverty.
Whenever newspapers are charged with peddling a pernicious line, they plead that they are merely reflecting their readers. But does middle Britain really see Vicky Pollard as representing the poor?
You can read the rest here.
As Clark points out - many top journalists are simply unfamiliar with poverty. Your average Fleet Street salary is nudging £40K and for seniors, and commentators especially, having only three foreign holidays a year and two nannies is considered slumming it.
But it is the news values which rate celebrity fluff and avoid 'complicated' stories which are truely to blame.
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