Hidden America: The Impoverished (Ann Curry)

[katty]

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/ann-curry-focuses-on-hidd_n_657320.html

Read More: Ann Curry, Bearing Witness 2.0, Poor, Slidefullscreen, Third World America, Media News This Sunday on NBC, Ann Curry will anchor a special report on impoverished Americans in Southeast Ohio.

"America Now: Friends & Neighbors" was produced from nine months of original reporting in the region, documenting those who have been hardest hit by the recession. The special includes a woman who opened a food pantry, a young mother who slept in a van with her children, a laid-off father unable to heat his home, and a family of 14 crowded into a 4-bedroom house to survive. It also features the Ohioans' clever appeal to President Obama: making please for jobs and food written on thousands of paper plates.

"This reporting is more like my experiences covering third world countries than any other I have ever done in America," Curry told TVNewser recently of the special. "The stories were unpredictable and you got the clear sense the people we interviewed felt invisible to the world outside their own. So much has been made of how the recession is affecting the middle class. Yet relatively little reporting had been done on how the poor have been impacted."

[tularetom]

1. The subject is worthy of a better spokesperson than Ann Curry

It's a serious matter but she is a doofus.

[katty]

2. yeah, I am not keen on her either

[Donnachaidh]

3. so everyone should ignore the message because you don't like the presenter?

:wow:

[tularetom]

5. I'll have to check again but I'm pretty sure that ain't what I said

More like the message deserves a better messenger.

[katty]

6. yes, I agree that was yr comment -

but as usual on DU the 'attacks' can start quickly - i think we all agree covering this is important.

[Tutankhamun]

4. I love the way news presenter types such as Ann Curry love to empathize with the common man.

I love it during TV newscasts when they have a few precious moments of banter between news presenters and they inevitably wind up making wonderful little self-depracating remarks intended to convince you, the lowly viewer, that they are just like you.

Example: "Well Jim, if I ate a piece of that cherry pie from the 'World's Largest Pie' segment on today's show it would go right to my hips and I'd be a whale!"

"Oh, Shirley, you'd still be gorgeous, but I, on the other hand, could never afford that special James Bond collector's editon vehicle. My kids need cereal, and my teenage daughter's cellphone bill has put me straight into the poorhouse!"

"Times are tough, Jim and we're all watching our budgets these days."

"Indeed we are, Shirley. Indeed we are. That's why I'm really looking forward to our segment on low cost Summer fun for the family."

"Me too, Jim. Me too. Good stuff. Good stuff. MmmmHmmmm!"

I know I'm not the only one who has noticed this pattern.

:rofl:

[TBF]

7. Excellent story - recommended. nt