Lying part two

I saw an interesting documentary this week, called Starsuckers. http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/trailer/ It is all about lies in the media controlling basic human impulses, and so manipulating people, which I referred to in my first blog. It explains it much better than I do! It's all about how false stories (lies) can be sold to newspapers...so if anyone is struggling with student debt, it's a way to make some money; if your conscience lets you, heres the link;http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/how-to/

Its also about how Live Aid and Live 8 were actually harming some Ethiopian people and it criticises Bob Geldof strongly. I found this interesting because on first watching, I thought: why criticise something with obviously good intentions, with supposedly good intentions? Surely you should be on the same side? Then I read Bob Geldofs rebuttal. http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/bob-geldof-letter/ I sided with him, and agreed he was only trying to help. Then I read this article from Andy Kershaw and changed my opinion again, I realised he had a point about the lack of African singers..surely thats not fair? http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andy-kershaw-the-myth-of-saint-bob-saviour-of-africa-494349.html
and then finally I read a comment from a member of the World Development Movement that said that charity aid diverts focus from what needs to be changed. Politics and systems need to change so that people can help themselves rather than take handouts.
I think that the whole idea of long term charity is a smokescreen to hide problems and systems that need changing and it is a non obvious deception. (or lie)