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…