The Crumbs From Your Table

At the intersection of politics, humanitarianism, celebrity and rock was Live 8 last weekend, the summit for pop music's elder statesmen and women to lobby everyone in the world to help debt- disease- and famine-stricken Africa. Organizers used the web to gather signitures and broadcast the concerts, and naturally bloggers joined in the discussion -- Live 8's website is BlogPulse's no. 3 link today. But it's not all peaches and cream, as Lloyd Banks once said, and he ain't Sara Lee. Crowds booed Celine Dion when she performed her Live 8 set via satellite from her Las Vegas headquarters; people complained Africa was underrepresented in the concerts, despite their intentions; and then there were all the other critics, who either said Live 8 wasn't enough -- like blogger shmeen -- or that it was all a bit much, like Mark Steyn, BlogPulse's no. 25 link. Whew. So that's all that. Jezebelee saw some of the shows, though, and she resists cynicsm: "There are many cynical editorials online regarding Live 8," she writes. "Maybe they are all right, that a mega concert is not going to affect the slightest change in politics, but it has in the very least given faces to the ongoing senseless suffering in Africa." Yes it has.

Posted by Philip Ewing at July 6, 2005 11:11 AM

Category: The Soundscape