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June 22, 2007
A Million Dollars?
I apologize for inundating you with notifications today, but when you're hot, you're hot. After I posted the entry about NBC paying Paris Hilton $1 million for her first post-jail interview, I got to thinking, "What else could you do for $1 million?"
Then it stuck me--if I were Les Moonves, CEO of CBS, I would announced today the CBS was donating $1 million to the families of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. What a great way to stick NBC in the eye (pun intended) for releasing and continuously showing the videos of Cho Seung-Hui, the murderer who sent videos of himself to NBC News. NBC insisted that its logo appear on the grisly videos that so offended the families of Cho's victims and that all the TV networks played over and over.
What would you do with the $1 million by which NBC is showing its tawdry values?
Posted by Charles Warner at June 22, 2007 01:32 PM
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at June 22, 2007 03:27 PM writes:
Brian Gruber, CEO of Fora.tv, writes:
"The entire operating budget for the first year of FORA.tv, aggregating a thousand events from around the world, the most important thinkers, issues and fora, and providing tools for participation, sharing, downloading and navigation, was $1 million. It took me months of fundraising to raise that money. How's that for an example of what you can do for $1 million?"
I think that's an excellent use of $1 million, and I urge all the readers of Media Curmudgeon to go to http://www.fora.tv for an excellent selection of intelligent videos of conferences and speeches by some of the world's leading thinkers.
By using Fora.tv you'll not only get smarter but you'll also help to build traffic for a worthy, quality, intelligent site where you'll never see an interview with Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, or Brad and Angelina.
Media Curmudgeon at June 22, 2007 03:18 PM writes:
Steve Keenan writes:
"Give it to a fund(s) that have been set up for children of families that have had loved one(s) killed by DUI drivers."
Great idea, Steve! Call it the Paris-Lindsay fund.
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