Celebrity activism

Sheryl Crow:

"We [celebrities] get a bad rap for putting ourselves out in front on issues, but my response to that is... I don't really care.... If people are going to be critical, they're missing the point."

E.J. Dionne:

Do you find it obnoxious when super-rich people in the music industry come forward to preen about their exquisitely sensitive social consciences?

Is there something worse than a multimillion-dollar televised entertainment operation patting itself on the back for weeks on end in celebration of its brilliantly inventive and groundbreaking approach to philanthropy?

Actually, there is something worse: a total indifference to human suffering.