Misleading the World on the Darfur Conflict
By Frank Salvato
Recently, a group calling itself Save Darfur initiated a media campaign calling for President Bush to “stop the genocide now” referring to the ethnic cleansing that is currently taking place in Darfur, Sudan. While any movement to halt the slaughter of innocents in Darfur should be considered a noble endeavor, the message conveyed in the commercial now running in the mainstream media is misleading because it implies that Bush either has more power over the situation than he actually has or is doing nothing to stop the slaughter. Both notions are false…