Bob Woodruff is the ABC newsguy who was severely injured in Iraq a few years ago. As I write, much of what Google finds for me ia about Remind.org, a project of his foundation:
Helping to heal the physical and psychological wounds of war.
The Bob Woodruff Foundation provides resources and support to service members, veterans and their families to successfully reintegrate into their communities so they may thrive physically, psychologically, socially and economically...
ReMIND.org is a movement of the Bob Woodruff Foundation that educates the public about the needs of injured service members, veterans and their families as they reintegrate into their communities and empowers people everywhere to take action.
They've been running a twitter campaign-for-cash, slogan: "Support our troops is no longer a slogan. It's an action." The goal is to get href=".65M between Memorial Day and July 4, presumably not entirely in the suggested donation of $5.25 (that's $1 for every soldier who has served since 9/11).
But there's also this ABC news special airing tomorrow, "Earth 2100." In the words of TVNewser:
ABC News Wonders: "Could This Be the Final Century of our Civilization?"
Broadcasting & Cable has more:
An Inconvenient News Special
And you thought the economy was bad.
ABC News has found a novel way of getting people to forget about how bad the economy is: Give them something far worse to contemplate.
In an ABC News special, Earth 2100, ABC News’ Bob Woodruff, with the help of "world-renowned scientists"–outlines a "perfect storm" of growing population, decreasing resources and climate change, whose result could be horrific droughts and famine, massacres and a civilization crumbling with only traces of modern human existence left behind to read blogs like these, though they may have to be carved into the bark of blighed trees with a sharpened latte spoon.
"Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln."
There even seems to be some White House imprimatur on the potential doomsday scenario that is projected if these shadows remain unaltered by the future....
The news special has been created in part out of viewer Web videos on what it would be like if all this bad stuff actually happened....
Some of the viewer contributions, as the executive producer says on the ABC web site, are indeed "extremely cool" and imaginative. But is it news?
It seems to me that prime time news shows on networks are now the province, principally (60 Minutes excluded) of tabloid fare calculated neither to X-ray nor enlighten, but to draw eyeballs with relatively inexpensive reality programming. Not that the latest cheerleader abduction or double murder or UFO exploration isn’t interesting, it’s just not news....
Hmm. I think I'll skip it, thanks. |