Last month I called the 20/20 special Hidden America: Children of the Plains "poverty porn." Well, I converted that posting into a column and Indian Country Today Media Network recently published it. Check it out:
‘Children of the Plains’ Was Little More Than ‘Poverty Porn’
For more on the subject, see "White Journalists" on Native America Calling and Children of the Plains Political Cartoon.
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Does anybody else get a weird image with the phrase "poverty porn"? Money shots of guys saying "Brother, can you spare some change?" A menage-a-trois of a father beating his son while Mom cowers in the back room, too afraid that if she stands up to dear old Dad, he'll beat her? A couple girls selling themselves for money for crystal meth? (Okay, that last one is getting too close to actual porn.)
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