GOOD.is
GOOD is a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward. Get involved.
  • Home
  • |
  • Columns ▶
    • BoingBoing on GOOD
    • Joe Ippolito on Business
    • Carol Coletta on Cities
    • Alissa Walker on Design
    • Ben Jervey on the Environment
    • Peter Smith on Food
    • Truman National Security Project on Foreign Policy
    • Picture Show
    • Mark Peters on Language
    • Anne Trubek on Literature
    • See All Columns
  • |
  • Video
  • |
  • Infographics
  • |
  • Community
  • |
  • Events
  • Follow GOOD:
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • rss feed
  • Business
  • |
  • Cities
  • |
  • Culture
  • |
  • Design
  • |
  • Education
  • |
  • Environment
  • |
  • Food
  • |
  • Health
  • |
  • Media
  • |
  • People
  • |
  • Politics
  • |
  • Technology
  • |
  • Transportation
  • 0
  • 2

American Idol Gives Back

  • Posted by: Morgan Clendaniel
  • on April 26, 2007 at 11:30 am

Last night’s American Idol was a charity special, and despite the best attempts of the producers to make it unbearable, it was actually a moving and tasteful affair. More importantly, the viewers of American Idol gathered together $30 millionto help end, as Bono put it: “brutal, stupid poverty.” And Celine Dion sang with a 3-d hologram of Elvis. Seriously. It was amazing.

  • Filed under: Blog : GOOD Blog
  • Share
  • Discuss
  • Mark it good!
  • Facebook
  •   Twitter
  • Digg
  • Stumble
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit
Direct link to this post:
Send as an Email:
Your email address:
Recipient's email address:
Message:

X
DISCUSSION: 2 Comments
    • Posted by: hyde545
    • on April 26, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    Get some backbone GOOD

    • Posted by: JohnCommoner
    • on April 30, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    I actually thought, though for a very good cause, that the show bordered on exploitation. They have to show the 12 year old talking about his dead parents and crying, or the scene where they carry the dying woman to their vehicle to be taken to a hospital, only to announce that she died two days later. I know sometimes we need to see that in order to be moved to care, horrible as that sounds, but I can’t help but trust my natural instinct that says it was a self-serving act by a bunch of spoiled celebrities whose greatest satisfaction is not in the good service of humanity but rather in the fulfillment of their own narcissistic fantasies. I don’t know. I guess – how else do you do such a show? I certainly can’t dispute that they raised a tremendous amount of cash in a very short time. But I’m not willing to praise the celebs for their wonderful humanitarianism.

Login or Sign up to discuss this article

Related Content

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    Arockalypse

    Many people are so enraptured by American Idol that they might not know that, over in Europe, a similar contest ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    Arrested Development

    Yesterday, world leaders were able to come together to recommit to the Millennium Development Goals, a ...
    Read & Discuss

  • General : The Community Board

    Anna Nicole and World Peace

    I am impressed with GOOD magazine thus far. I am particularly interested in how the publisher and his colleagues ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : This Week In GOOD

    This Week In GOOD

    Holy cow it's been one whirlwind of a week. ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    New Video: Bono: A Brief History

    Bono has gone from consummate rock star to passionate advocate for change, gaining audience with the world's leaders and ...
    Read & Discuss

Recent Readers

  • Jay J. Ku
  • Jordan Ruden
  • Garth Moore
  • Amrit
  • Eric Small
  • joepeach
  • Rowland Hobbs
  • Casey Caplowe
  • Jesse Poe
  • Tali Catz
  • Harjinder Purba
  • Facebook User
See all

This Week In Blogs

  • Most Discussed
  • Most GOODMarked
  1. How Thanksgiving Got Its Turkey
  2. Is Newsweek’s Sarah Palin Cover Sexist?
  3. Transparency: The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity
  4. Prison and College: California’s Ridiculous Priorities
  5. Are You Raising a Furkid?
  6. The GOOD 100: Cowpooling
  7. Sad or Cute: Hermit Crab Makes Home in Broken Bottle
  8. Tips on How to Reduce Food Packaging Waste
  9. The Charter for Compassion
  10. New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education
  1. New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education
  2. The Charter for Compassion
  3. The GOOD Guide to COP15: The Fire this Time: Copenhagen and the War for the Future
  4. Singularity 101: What Is the Singularity?
  5. Picture Show: Breach
  6. Prison and College: California’s Ridiculous Priorities
  7. Charging Forward with Mission Motor’s Electric Superbike
  8. Intermission: Eye-popping 3D Building Projections
  9. Tips on How to Reduce Food Packaging Waste
  10. The Changing Music Business: The Chart

GOOD Magazine
About
|
Join
|
Sign In

Categories

  • Business
  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Design
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Food
  • Health
  • Media
  • People
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Transportation

Special Features

  • Blogs
  • Events
  • Infographics
  • Look
  • Picture Show
  • Q&A
  • Video

Community

  • Community Board
  • Member directory
  • Join the Community

Social

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Flickr

Magazine

  • Current issue
  • Back issues
  • Subscribe
  • Gift a gift
  • Renew/Service

GOOD

  • What is GOOD?
  • Make GOOD better
© GOOD Worldwide LLC. - all rights reserved
  • Company details
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • RSS
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Powered by Verkata