LAWRENCE, Kan. – I’ve needed a couple of weeks to recover from the unfortunate event known as Live 8. It seems every media outlet has weighed in, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t share my own thoughts.

First of all, it was painfully obvious that MTV and VH1′s July 9th re-broadcasts of two consecutive, commercial-free five-hour blocks of Live 8 performances (one block on VH1 followed by another on MTV) were responses to the overwhelming number of scathing reviews of their previous week’s telecast of the concerts on July 2, 2005. It was not out of generosity to their audience, as they would have liked people to believe. They made some big time errors that they couldn’t rectify until a week later.

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