Dear Bono....

In order to end extreme poverty, five groups of people must take on individual roles before coming together. These groups of people are: Bono, You, The Press Councils, The Press, and The Governments. Below is a brief outline of each group's roles, with a more in depth outline HERE.

• Meet with the chairs of the 70-odd press councils and heads of the world's media accountability systems
• Propose the idea of mandatory reporting

• WRITE, WRITE, WRITE! Each newspaper edition and each television and radio news bulletin that you come across that fails to tell you about the extreme poverty body count is a breach of their code of ethics and a transgression worthy of complaining about.
• Lobby the government to honor their commitments towards the millennium development goals, especially once mandatory reporting is implemented

• Recommend (rather than enforce) mandatory reporting on extreme poverty
• Develop a set of guidelines advising outlining the minimum requirements of each of the news mediums print, television, radio and electronic
• Revise their country's code of ethics to highlight the consequences news omission can generate

• Report on extreme poverty deaths every day
• Implement s body count priority system allocating the leading news story to the most people who have died from one event
• Encourage and provide incentives to stimujate advocacy journalism
• Run an ongoing campaign aiming to make extreme poverty history

• Recomit its economic policy on official development assistance of .7 per cent of the national gross product for each country
• Award backpay for every year since the 2000 Millennium Summit where administrations have fallen short of their GNP commitments
• Embark on a war on extreme poverty. Similar to a war or terror where the keyword is intangible, a war on extreme poverty would entail s mass military and voluntourisn operation helping build infrastructure and provide options and education in self sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

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