2012-03-19 19:27:38.393924+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Worth a read: Aaron Badey: The Jimmy McNulty Gambit.
Mike Daisey wasn’t the first person to make up a false personal story as a way of raising the kind of “awareness” that will necessitate change, nor was #StopKony the first hyper-successful campaign to take a massively complicated political-economic-military problem and reduce it to the narrative of a great white savior.
On making things up to grab public attention.
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