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Jon Bon Jovi, interviewed by Guardian “Question time”, June 7, 2007:
…[Media] can be pretty important when it comes to awareness because the media will pay attention to the [Live Earth] event, and the event, if presented properly, can be educational for those watching and listening. You know, a series of short films or passionate speeches by those who are knowledgeable can at least educate the masses, so that in their own little way maybe they can do some good in the world…
Gosh, I don’t know about you, but speaking here evidently as one of “the masses” possessing the “little ways” that “the knowledgeable” undoubtedly despise, all I could think of in reading that masterpiece of PR is . . . how could anyone NOT be inspired by such candor?
Johann Hari, in The Independent, July 5:
If you had said a decade ago that Al Gore would be organising the biggest rock concert in history, with two billion people watching and worrying about climate science, you would have been swiftly sectioned. But here we are: this weekend, the democratically elected 43rd President of the United States will be cheered on to the LiveEarth stage by hundreds of millions of viewers eager to know more about how we are, together, drastically altering the physical and chemical composition of our atmosphere…
In claiming Mr Gore was “democratically elected”, what Mr Hari is above apparently referring to is ”the popular vote” nationwide of 2000, rather than the Electoral College. That latter is, Mr Hari may not realize, actually where a U.S. president is officially elected.
No matter. Interestingly, though, could one just as well apply that Independent columnist’s outlook to other areas of life? How about, for instance, to sports? Reuters:
Roger Federer beat Spanish second seed Rafael Nadal 7-6 4-6 7-6 2-6 6-2 to win his fifth successive Wimbledon title on Sunday…
True, Federer won the required 3 sets out of 5, but let us not forget that, as we can see, both won exactly 26 games. So who really won?
Federer apparently. For if one digs a bit deeper, we are told he won 165 points to Nadal’s 158. Still, Nadal could probably challenge some of those Federer points in court, no? After all, it seems that someone (or some entity) must have wanted to make sure he lost.
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