Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
“As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.”
“Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.”