‘Sensationalised poverty media’ has usually been referenced as ‘poverty porn’ in discussions on development issues, but I have purposefully decided to not use this term
When writing about Africa we are told: Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and
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