Wheres the Footnote?
Exaggerated stories about homeless and hungry children never seem to lose their appeal to the media. On December 2, CBS reporter Giselle Fernandez began her Evening News holiday season hard-luck story: “Tonight, thousands across the country hope to light up the nation’s conscience, and spotlight the tragedy of more than a million kids living homeless on the streets.” Without mentioning a source for her figure, Fernandez reported the “struggle to survive the streets every night” of three New York youths. Anecdotal evidence aside, a review by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences found that “studies seeking to provide an estimate of the number of homeless children…are nonexistent.” On December 20, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw reported: “It’s estimated there are five million kids in America who go hungry every month.” But in August, a dubious Tufts University study (also cited by Brokaw) claimed only that 12 million children were hungry at some time during 1991. Brokaw’s new claim even
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