Poverty that is the conglomerate of bad luck and worse circumstances is a main headline of the news magazines and journals. Poverty is a dragon that has many ugly facets.These varied shapes of this anathema are a source of filling up the pages of the news journals.
There are manifold reasons that make poverty a news story.The first of these is the curious nature of man.He always wants to know about others.Poverty quenches the thirst of a man in this regard. He always sees odd, weird and strange happenings due to poverty. He reads about a mother who killed her children due to hunger. He watches that a father slaughtered his family because he was not able to feed it. He reads that a brother ate to his fill while his little sisters and brother died due to famine.All these unholy happenings fulfill the curiosity of a man. If one is hungry, he can sell his honor his homeland and even his loved ones. It is a curse that gnaws at the very roots of the humanity. That is why it is the main stream story of all the news channels of all the times. It is not only shown in the media but also discussed in the meetings and seminars. It is put forward in the parliaments and the cabinets. It is so important phenomena that the UNO had to include it in its millennium development goals.
The ever hot issue is the poverty that is present everywhere in the world. The most powerful nations of the world are not devoid of this anathema. A lot of people die due to hunger and non availability of eatables in the advanced countries of the world.
According to the facts and figures of the UNO about 25000 deaths occur daily due to non availability of food .It means that one person is dying in every four seconds. The children are the worst prey to the dragon of poverty all over the world.
Irony of the situation is that there is plenty of food present in the reservoirs of the world. In spite of the presence of the stock piles the food is not available to the hungry and the poor of the world. The major cause behind this non availability of food is the money. The poor have no money to buy this food and are not able to live. Constant starvation makes them weak and they did not remain able to work. This unemployment breaks their neck and they get down and down in the abyss of poverty and hunger.
This vicious circle ends in unfortunate deaths of these pitiable people. Whole the world remains watching these hapless human beings dying only due to lack of few dollars. Not only the one man dies but also his family is famished and constrained to disappear from the face of the earth. World media and world organizations forget them after making their deaths headline on their periodicals. Nobody comes out to disburse food or wads of money. Only word jugglery is performed in the meetings and seminars. To keep oneself in the news and promote one's image as a humanitarian is on the background of the poverty to remain in the news.
Often poverty is ridiculed instead of redeemed. The poor are punned and are shown with the naked feet and deprived bodies.It is done in the name of good faith but there is not even simple faith except shenanigans. The UNO sometimes is trapped by the profiteers and pseudo-non governmental organizations whose sole aim is to grab and pile up money by hook or by crook. Such persons and organizations try their best to remain in limelight. Their aim is to pretend humanism .they want People and governments of the world to praise their work. They influence the common folk by their false image of humanitarianism. This is also one of the reasons that poverty becomes the important news.
Few organizations are making sincere efforts to work out plans for saving the starved people of the world. There are certain programs for the poor that include food for work, food for education and some others that facilitate the poor to get food in exchange of the work and education. Such programs require advertisement and publicity. This makes poverty an important news item.
To conclude it can be said that instinct of being publicized and remain in the news is the main cause that has made poverty a major news items.