Are they helping others or helping themselves ?
« Every now and then we go through this awakening process that really makes us feel used and manipulated, » a colleague told me the other day. Some time ago the Norwegian documentary film « The Famine Scam » was awarded first prize for its outstanding journalistic work on the « famine » in Niger. Let us go back to July 2005 when we were confronted with photos of starving children in Niger. The UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in those days informed journalists that more than…
