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No News Today

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May 16, 2006

Today's UK Independent Newspaper leads with a full front page graphic designed by Damien Hirst. The headline reads: "No News Today". Then it has a footnote: "Just 6,500 Africans died today as a result of a preventable, treatable disease."Bono is the guest editor of today's edition of the Independent, as part of the Red campaign; and half the revenues go to the Global Fund. His own article begins:

May I say without guile, I am as sick of messianic rock stars as the next man, woman and child.

But he goes on to ask:

I'm a witness to this. What can I do?

There is an interview with Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, an article by Bob Geldof, and much else.

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