Scott Charney sees the U2 frontman's latest cause as evidence of a broader pattern of attention-seeking:
While Bono's own writings and the website of the ONE Campaign do mention violence and political instability afflicting the region, and even refer to the famine as "man-made," the actual causes of this disruption are completely ignored. …
Bono may be well aware of this, but his pattern of activism since the mid-1980s makes it clear that he seeks to curry favor with politicians of various ideological stances around the world, in order to better ameliorate the results of the actions of these same politicians. To use the terminology of Bono's own industry, his own philanthropy could use a remastering, if not a complete remix. The present, longstanding path of his activism is not only possibly self-defeating, but ominously could be leading to apathy and "donor fatigue" as the same story repeats again and again.
(Celebrity ad via Copyranter, who initially guesses "Face-lift!")
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