Comments on: CNN Special this Thursday: Scream Bloody Murder http://blogfordarfur.org/archives/162 Save Darfur Weblog Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:14:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: DGA http://blogfordarfur.org/archives/162#comment-63 DGA Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:33:39 +0000 http://blogfordarfur.org/?p=162#comment-63 I think that the show was very good and placing Darfur in its historical context - pictures were shocking for many probably but the interviews with the upstanders were good at speaking about why WE DON'T ACT as one humanity. I was very disappointed however how at the end Amanpour basically left the question hanging - what will you do when genocide happens again, rather then WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING NOW... HERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO ACT... There was none of that. It seemed like from footage from Bosnia, she was pleading for intervention, and for Clinton to do something, anything more than the nothing he was doing. Why not use this same angle and ask Bush or even President-elect to do something on National (and International as it will air on the 6th and 7th) TV. Glad that CNN put this together - it is more air time then all Darfur coverage over the past 5 years - but its bullshit they didn't have a call to action. Especially when Moreno-Ocampo stated in his online interview that it is THE PEOPLE who get governments to act. I think that the show was very good and placing Darfur in its historical context – pictures were shocking for many probably but the interviews with the upstanders were good at speaking about why WE DON’T ACT as one humanity.

I was very disappointed however how at the end Amanpour basically left the question hanging – what will you do when genocide happens again, rather then WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING NOW… HERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO ACT…

There was none of that. It seemed like from footage from Bosnia, she was pleading for intervention, and for Clinton to do something, anything more than the nothing he was doing. Why not use this same angle and ask Bush or even President-elect to do something on National (and International as it will air on the 6th and 7th) TV.

Glad that CNN put this together – it is more air time then all Darfur coverage over the past 5 years – but its bullshit they didn’t have a call to action. Especially when Moreno-Ocampo stated in his online interview that it is THE PEOPLE who get governments to act.

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