The American Expatriate: Make Poverty History (but first....)

THE AMERICAN ^REEXPATRIATE

"America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb, in a remarkably frank admission of his role in misinforming the British public about America and Americans

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Make Poverty History (but first....)

Does anyone else see the massive disconnect exhibited by a British media which lionizes Bob Geldof for engaging in mindless emotional blackmail like this: He said if Mr Blair met objections from other world leaders, who have been arriving in Scotland through the day, he should remind them of the 50,000 people dying daily because they were too poor to live.
...while at the same time wildly celebrating having won the obligation to spend up to £5 billion on a sporting event?

I'd like to know why the BBC doesn't ask the sainted Geldof if he "backed the bid".