By reporter Steven Smalley
The magazine crews have landed on the shores of Magnolia once again. It’s 9pm, Monday night and a knock at the door leads this reporter to confront two young men soliciting to help the impoverished. Before they can speak their rehearsed spiel, a blunt question comes from the homeowner, “Are you a magazine crew?” The answer was a proud, “Yes.”
This reminds me of the revealing article from a few years ago in the New York Times about these very same magazine sellers. The article tells the story of bleak travels from state to state, sleeping three to a room in cheap motels, with the lowest seller crashed on the floor. Throw in drug use and abusive management and you get the grim picture.
Read the article here and (in this reporter’s opinion) show the poor unfortunates the door.