I wonder if the journalists think nobody will notice all the stuff the “poor, starving” subjects have ... not to mention how well-fed they usually look.
It reminds me of the story about how workers in the Soviet Union were shown a film about the American auto industry. They were supposed to observe the dreadful exploitation of the American proletariat by capitalist management, but instead, they saw the acres of parking lots, filled with personal cars owned by the workers.
I think the reporters are of the same mentality as the entitled receiving the “benefit” -
they SHOULD have all the neat stuff that everyone else has
AND get the benefit.
It’s only people like us, who DO make tradeoffs and purchasing decisions,
that notice that these people DON’T make the same tradeoffs that we have to.