Black Americans are over-represented in media portrayals of poverty
“NBC reported recently that at a meeting last year with the Congressional Black Caucus a member told President Donald Trump that his planned welfare cuts would hurt her constituents, ‘not all of whom were black’. Mr Trump is reported to have replied: ‘Really? Then what are they?’ If the president had not realised that most welfare recipients are white, he is not alone. And the media are partly to blame, for black Americans are overwhelmingly over-represented in media portrayals of poverty.”