Apr 29, 2006 23:14
I was flipping through the channels just now and stopped on Real Time with Bill Maher because it had George Clooney and I was wondering why he would be on there. And then he made the best point any celebrity activist has ever made. He said that the Natalie Holloway story, while sure it's a tragedy and it's awful, there is genocide going on in the world and you never see any stories about it on TV. The story of one family's tragedy is getting 24 hour news coverage while the deaths of thousands are getting no coverage. He said that if these stories from these foreign lands could get even 1/10 of the time of the Holloway story, more people would take notice and start trying to do something about it. He's visited these places to try and help just like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
I've made that point about news channels before and it was nice to see someone whose opinion will actually be able to be heard by the masses being in complete agreement. Thank you George Clooney.