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Jul 06 2007 12:00am EDT

Bono Bashing

Does anybody have a nice word to say about Bono? Pablo Halkyard has a round-up of recent articles and blog entries attacking the Irish rocker and humanitarian, which appeared just before William Easterly published an op-ed in the L.A. Times headlined "What Bono doesn't say about Africa." Even Marc Andreessen has a series of blog entries entitled simply "Bono" and none of them is flattering.

Is this the same man who is going to receive the 2007 Liberty Medal in September? The man whose DATA nonprofit is extremely highly regarded among development wonks? What has he done to become a whipping boy?

Felix Salmon's full Market Movers blog post on Bono and related links can be found here.

Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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