The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media
narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how
small-town reporters and editors in some of the region's poorest
communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their
audiences interpret those decisions, and how those two related
processes help shape broader understandings of economic need and
local social responsibility. Focusing on patterns of both media
creation and consumption, The News Untold shows how a lack of
constructive news coverage of economic need can make it harder for
the poor to voice their concerns. Critical and inclusive news
coverage of poverty at the local level, Michael Clay Carey writes,
can help communities start to look past old stereotypes and
attitudes and encourage solutions that incorporate broader sets of
community voices. Such an effort will require journalists and
community leaders to reexamine some of the professional traditions
and social views that often shape what news looks like in small
towns.
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