Why A Hot Ghetto Mess?

This is a wonderful story from the pages of the New York Times here, and it makes me wonder about the sister who did Hot Ghetto Mess. Mind you, I have never seen any of "the mess", and I don't want to, but it does make you wonder what that sister was thinking about when she thought it up. With so many negative stories out there about black people and the community, why couldn't she have thought up a series on the better side of black life, positive stories, such as this one where the people are actually making their lives work? There was also a story on snitching, via the Washington Post, that didn't make me necessarily understand this phenomenon any better, especially at the end of the piece. I just didn't quite understand just what he was advocating at the end of the piece, but I do laud him on the work he is currently doing. I also saw a piece on a woman who is helping inner city youths by training them to train dogs to help the disabled. The child stated that the program had saved him from going down the wrong path and that he wanted to continue the work he was doing. There are so many negative images out there in the world for our people and our youth to see, why not counteract that with some of the more positive stories that we know exist? I don't know exactly what this sister thought she was out to prove, but most of the people in her mess are not going to see themselves, get cleaned up and go straight or whatever. Most of them will probably tell their friends they were on Hot Ghetto Mess and let them know when their 15 seconds of lame will be on so they can watch.
There is also a wonder slide show from the New York Times story, here.