General Chat / Live 8 Coverage

So, I think it's better that the G8 leaders should do something about it rather than the billions who watched Live8. The G8 leaders are now pressurized to do something that billions worldwide want to happen.

That's a great thought, but I bet most of those billions only went to see their favourite band.
Who cares about Africa when there's Pink Floyd?!?!

It's not going to change anything. I've seen the save the children commercial since I've been watching TV. I still can't feel bad. A person I've never met means nothing to me, and neither does their death. Yes, that sounds cold, but I can't worry about death and starvation all day long and stay depression-free long enough not to kill myself at the same time. Good thing there's Floyd to keep my mind off of it.

Oh, and the musicians might have worked for free, but I doubt all the shops, taxis, buses, trains, airlines, police, security, vendors, sponsors, etc. did it for free.

And even if the G8 does do something all that will happen is money will be given to dictators. Which of course will be used to buy weapons that will be used against the people they are meant to help.

It's not going to change anything. I've seen the save the children commercial since I've been watching TV. I still can't feel bad. A person I've never met means nothing to me, and neither does their death. Yes, that sounds cold, but I can't worry about death and starvation all day long and stay depression-free long enough not to kill myself at the same time. Good thing there's Floyd to keep my mind off of it.

Yes your right that does sound cold. I think you miss the point entirely.

The main reason those countries are in poverty is our countries. Ok there are other reasons but Trade barriers and The serious debt they owe us is a pretty big reason. I myself give £10 out of my wakes each month to charity. Ok its not a huge amount but its something. and if everyone did that it would make a huge difference. (im not gonna miss 4 pints a month to be honest).
Now i'm not saying you should do that BUT i think you should care. The main thing that got me is that if 50,000 people died from something everyday in america im DAMN sure you would care quite a bit more hey? ok u may never meet the people dieing but just because it was in your country you would care...

Now whats the difference???

Anyway i personally dont think Live 8 will work. Corruption is a major problem and peoples apathy is another. Live 8 is a nice idea and its a step in the right direction but it wont work. Good gig though

Anyway i personally dont think Live 8 will work. Corruption is a major problem and peoples apathy is another. Live 8 is a nice idea and its a step in the right direction but it wont work. Good gig though

I also think Live 8 didn't work.

The first Live Aid worked out pretty good as the collected money in order to help people starving to death in africa, but this time it was more like a huge concert, but they missed the message completly. i also doubt many people came and watched the concerts to protest against what the first world is doing.
Same goes for the bands. most of them just came there and played to get some good promotion and to polish their image.

Anyways Live Aid is a step in the right direction even if it doesn't work out too well. We have to help those people in africa and that's what Live Aid should stand for.

BBC's coverage was good...I just fucking HATED the hosts and their random interviews with guys that have nothing to do with music like John Macynrow

The main thing that got me is that if 50,000 people died from something everyday in america im DAMN sure you would care quite a bit more hey? ok u may never meet the people dieing but just because it was in your country you would care...

Now whats the difference???

No, I really wouldn't. People die. I can't send sympathy cards to everyone.

The first Live Aid worked out pretty good as the collected money in order to help people starving to death in africa.

I read an article somewhere which talked about why Live Aid didn't work. The money they were given from the concert couldn't get to the people who needed it, and just went to corrupt governments, who spent it entirely on themselves, and the continued repression of their people.

So, instead of helping hurt people, we, actually, helped the people who were hurting them...

Of course it didn't work. The main point of these benefit concerts is to raise awareness about a certain issue. Is there anyone who doesn't know thousands of people are starving to death in Africa? I think that's been a well known fact for at least a decade now and yet it's still going on. I'm not saying it's wrong to have these concerts. I just think in general it has a lot more to do with music and a lot less to do with helping people in need. How about we stop spending billions of dollars on experimental aircraft and mobilize our troops to spread supplies where they are needed? Wouldn't that be a much more telling act of peacemaking than armed barricades and secret assasination missions?

Of course it didn't work. The main point of these benefit concerts is to raise awareness about a certain issue. Is there anyone who doesn't know thousands of people are starving to death in Africa? I think that's been a well known fact for at least a decade now and yet it's still going on.

Exactly. Its still going on... why?

mobilize our troops to spread supplies where they are needed?

"Ranger! Ranger! You die Somalia!"

"Ranger! Ranger! You die Somalia!"

Okay so MAYBE it didn't work once...but it did turn into a very profitable film!

Still, it's a good thing to do. Better than blowing Iraq to smithereens, at any rate.

Yes but wasn't that an assasination mission? Or at least a 'kidnapping' mission.

The story in Black Hawk Down was a kidnapping. They were trying to capture a warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, or at least some high level associates of his. Aidid, like many other dictators and warlords, was known to use starvation as a means of leaverage. Fighting dictators and warlords that use starvation as a means of keeping power would be very much apart of using troops to secure food.

Even Aidid's son was a US Marine for awhile who actually went to Somalia. Sadly though when Aidid died his son returned to Somalia to follow his father.

How the heck did we get from the VH1 and MTV coverage of Live 8 to Black Hawk Down...

Because nobody cares about a shit concert held by a pathetic dickhead who only did it because he realised everyone had forgotten who he was! Of course, he's yet to realise nobody ever knew who he was to begin with...

He was in some band, wasn't he?