I did have to laugh that these stupid journalists pick an obese woman as one of the great deprived. And, you are right, it’s lazy beyond belief. I would have looked for the skinniest, most miserable person in Detroit. Of course, it might be the photographer, not the journalist who goofed up.
Still, to me, the idea of hundreds or thousands of people going without water (for whatever reason) is a ticket to disaster for this country.
Maybe there was no goof at all, but an attempt to let the reader draw his own conclusions from the facts — which includes photos.
A picture is, after all, worth a thousand words.
The ticket to disaster is to keep having the people that do pay their own way also cover more and more cost for people that wont pay their own way.
Taking money from people that do work to cover the cost of people that don’t work simply creates more poverty.