Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Mr Anderson Cooper -you disappointed me

Jolie's Extravagant Philanthropy Is Hard to Fault ---read the NY Times article. I am listening to Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. And I am thinking, for a person whom I thought was my ideal. I even heard his speech on C-Span to the Yale Grads, his podcast on the Amazon. I then felt that maybe he was talking more about what he did than what happened, he saw and what could be done to change. Not what he felt all the time. But this column kinda threw me off completely. I definitely hadn't seen this coming. The two people who showed me the way. ..The reasons why I went for the Engineers without Borders in the first place ( why I stayed is because I was hooked)..and also the reasons why we donate money to the Sankara Eye Foundation and other charities then celebrate occasions e.g. birthdays and anniversaries.
Then it turns out that the journalist was trying to milk Ms. Jolie for all she is worth. You cannot draw parallels with what she has done simply because you are two different individuals using the same situations for opposing purposes. She is a celebrity trying to use her status to draw attention to situations which need money funneling in and doesnt mind going off the conventional track for it. A step of Bono, yes that's true. But then what you are doing, Mr.Cooper is trying to use the Hurricane pathos to sell your book and make money for yourseslf. Unless you are going to donate it to a charity. Are you? I didn't think so anyway. I was thinking of buying the book and now I am thinking might as well write off the book to my fav charity and borrow the book from the local library. That's what all of us should do, I think.

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