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Subject is exactly lived among
Journalist goes undercover to exploit the poor.

Homelessness, Down-and-Out, Broke

Among the most common of poses: journalists who elect to live as tramps, the homeless, or the abject poor.

Depression-Era Undercover

 Experiencing life among the poverty-stricken and the down-and-out was a recurrent Depression-era theme, one Marvel Cooke reprised in the 1950. 
This CBS News documentary was originally shown November 30, 1961 and rebroadcast in 1963 and was an early use of the hidden camera in television documentary.

Slum-Dwelling

Undercover reporters experience and write about what it's like to live in a slum and adapt to the lifestyle for a period of time.