Popbitch on everyone's favourite

[Kahnee]

Vanity Fair have invited "pop-humanitarian" Bono to be guest editor of the July issue, to try and "rebrand Africa". Some magazines have been sharing some other facts about Bono:

 

* In the year since it was founded, his Red campaign (licensed to Gap, Motorola, Apple etc) has raised $18 million - but companies have spent $100 million to market it.

 

* Bono doesn't invest his own money in Red.

 

* Apple sells a Special Edition U2 iPod. Its profits are not donated to Red.

 

* U2 made $389m from the recent Vertigo tour. Its revenue was then funnelled through

companies mostly registered in Ireland and structured to minimize taxes.

 

* U2 moved its music publishing company to the Netherlands from Ireland in June 2006, six

months before Ireland ended a tax exemption on musicians' royalty income.

 

* Richard Murphy, adviser to lobbying group the Tax Justice Network, says "This is somebody

who's exceptionally rich taking the opportunity to shift his tax burden to somebody else, but

then asking governments around the world to spend that tax take in the way that he would like."

[Ed the Wool]

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Edited March 9, 2007 by Cobs

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