The criticism followed comments by Liz Warner, the chief executive of Comic Relief, admitting the organisation had lost its creative touch and needed to be “edgy again”. The Sheeran-fronted Comic Relief video, during which the singer offers to pay hotel costs for street children in Liberia, verged on “poverty tourism”, according to the jury. The DEC’s Africa video was deemed “poverty porn and people waiting to be saved”. It really hits a nerve.”The film features a child in Yemen, laughing and playing with a Batman character. The Radi-Aid awards grew out of a satirical video on aid fundraising in 2012 Radi-Aid: Africa for Norway, which went viral.

Source: The Guardian December 04, 2017 06:00 UTC