I'd suggest that if a person is not from the areas affected then they possibly aren't getting an accurate grasp on the reality via media. If I trusted my count

I'd suggest that if a person is not from the areas affected then they possibly aren't getting an accurate grasp on the reality via media. If I trusted my country's media then I'd think that the main issues affecting poorer demographics are drug addiction, homelessness, joblessness due to inaccessibility of education...i.e. lots of things you can fix by electing the correct people and increasing funding. These are issues, but they're tiny minority issues which somehow remain de rigueur for the media to talk about. In the actual communities the issues are more predominant and less politically correct to talk about, such as tensions between indigenous populations and immigrants, single parenthood, joblessness due to cheaper labour from emerging economies, joblessness due to the facilitation of employer abuses by government through zero hour contracts, gang violence in-part due to drug usage by wealthier classes, and so on. I don't read American newspapers but I'm guessing that you'll see a lot of the former and none of the latter in the Times.