The love of the game, part II
Last month, I wrote a post about why journalists are journalists. I referred to journalists who want to change the world. Those who look for targets to shoot at took aim at that statement for various reasons that, honestly, didn't make much sense to me. It was almost as if they were trying not to understand my point.
Here's another run at it from someone better than I. Rick Reilly explains in this week's Sports Illustrated. (Can't find it online.)
My favorite column, though, was not about one person but millions -- the impoverished Africans who benefited from Nothing But Nets, the antimalaria campaign you and I started with the help of the United Nations Foundation. Every week I hear about another kid donating his bar mitzvah money, a Brownie troop sending its lemonade profits, a family choosing nets over Christmas gifts. We're at $16 million, and much of that has come in twenties and fives and even rolls of quarters.
Changing the world.
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