Global Development: Views from the Center

May 16, 2006

No News Today

By Administrator

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Today’s UK Independent Newspaper leads with a full front page graphic designed by Damien Hirst. The headline reads: “No News Today”. Then it has a footnote: “Just 6,500 Africans died today as a result of a preventable, treatable disease.”
Bono is the guest editor of today’s edition of the Independent, as part of the Red campaign; and half the revenues go to the Global Fund. His own article begins:

May I say without guile, I am as sick of messianic rock stars as the next man, woman and child.

But he goes on to ask:

I’m a witness to this. What can I do?

There is an interview with Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, an article by Bob Geldof, and much else.


One comment on “No News Today”

  1. Todd Moss Says:
    May 16, 2006 at 2:54 pm

    Among the best of the other articles is a fawning profile of the Nigerian finance minister: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article484987.ece


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