Sentence examples for poverty entertainment from inspiring English sources

By the end of January, local MP Austin Mitchell had written to the station boss demanding he cancel Skint's commission and "consider the ethics of the trend Channel 4 has embarked on of demonising the poor and making poverty entertainment".

Poverty as entertainment.

Angela's Ashes offered up poverty as entertainment.

Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from.

Slum Vacation so obviously risks making poverty into entertainment and the artist into a hero as he literally slums it.

The programme was condemned by the current Ladywood MP, Labour's Shabana Mahmood: "I found it shocking that Channel 4 or any other organisation would present poverty as entertainment.

The reality is that "entertainment poverty" is just another bandage on the deepening wound of class division in America.

Ben Selkow: Certainly the notion that the only escape for inner city youth from the vicious cycles of poverty is music, entertainment, the arts or athletics was not lost on us in developing this show.

The book does not say to what uses the woolly mammoths would then be put — wiping out poverty in Darfur, providing entertainment at colorblind frat parties, replacing Red Skelton as the funniest comic of all time — but it is precisely these sorts of out-of-the-box inquiries that separate John Zogby from run-of-the-mill pollsters.

On the other hand, they found "no relationship between movie ticket sales, another inexpensive form of entertainment, and poverty rates".

As a single parent who managed to cope and pull herself out of poverty and create a massive entertainment empire on the way, she is very inspiring".