Last month on Late Show with David Letterman, as she’s done on her own MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow made the point that there will always be fear mongers — like the Fox News Channel, she said — who, in her words, want white voters to be afraid of “scary black people” so they’ll vote conservative. What can change, she insisted, is how other media outlets and viewers themselves react to the stories they spin. Instead of going along with the snap judgment on the edited Shirley Sherrod video (which, to be fair, not all Fox News personalities did), CNN spent the day debunking it,...
- 9/3/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
George Clooney will receive a special Emmy Award during the primetime telecast on Aug. 29. He'll be handed the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award to acknowledge his extensive charity work. Notes the TV academy's press release: "Whether it is his advocacy to stop genocide in Darfur, his subsequent founding of Not On Our Watch with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Jerry Weintraub to focus global attention and resources on preventing mass atrocities, or quickly mobilizing the entertainment industry for the 'America: A Tribute to Heroes' in the wake of 9/11, 'Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope' in 2005, and most recently, the 'Hope For Haiti Now' telethon, Clooney’s personal dedication to humanitarian concerns makes...
- 7/21/2010
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
Benefits for Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and the Asian tsunami similarly called on celebs to help raise money.
By Jayson Rodriguez
George Clooney
Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
George Clooney and Wyclef Jean have been burning the midnight oil, working furiously to raise funds and secure participants for the "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon, presented by MTV Networks on Friday at 8 p.m. Et/Pt.
The undertaking is expected to be one of the biggest charitable efforts ever. All proceeds from the telecast will be split among five relief organizations actively operating in Haiti: Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, Unicef and Wyclef's Yele Haiti foundation.
"Hope for Haiti" is the latest in a line of all-star charity events, following in the footsteps of the September 11 fundraiser "America: A Tribute to Heroes" and "Shelter From the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast,...
By Jayson Rodriguez
George Clooney
Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
George Clooney and Wyclef Jean have been burning the midnight oil, working furiously to raise funds and secure participants for the "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon, presented by MTV Networks on Friday at 8 p.m. Et/Pt.
The undertaking is expected to be one of the biggest charitable efforts ever. All proceeds from the telecast will be split among five relief organizations actively operating in Haiti: Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, Unicef and Wyclef's Yele Haiti foundation.
"Hope for Haiti" is the latest in a line of all-star charity events, following in the footsteps of the September 11 fundraiser "America: A Tribute to Heroes" and "Shelter From the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast,...
- 1/20/2010
- MTV Music News
In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti that has killed up to tens of thousands of people, George Clooney and MTV Networks are organizing a megawatt line up of musicians, film and television stars for a national telethon looking to be successful in raising funds as previous disaster telethons have in the past. "He's been on the phone for three days straight with almost no sleep," Clooney's rep told People when he skipped the Critics' Choice Awards Friday in order to prepare for the Haiti telethon. "George knows how to do this well. It's his third one." The Up in the Air...
- 1/17/2010
- by Paul Chi and Elizabeth Leonard
- PEOPLE.com
Bridget Jones's Diary star Renee Zellweger's wedding to Kenny Chesney was planned over such a short span of time, the actress didn't even get an engagement ring. On Monday, the couple shocked fans when they announced they'd wed that day on the Caribbean island of St John in a beach ceremony. Chesney's publicist Holly Gleason reveals, "She doesn't even have an engagement ring." The couple met at the Concert Of Hope tsunami fundraiser concert on January 15, with their romance becoming public knowledge just last Week.
- 5/12/2005
- WENN
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