""Tell me, Emma, if Bono and Bob hadn't made 'Band Aid' or 'Live Aid' public, then how the fuck would so many millions of pounds and dollars have been raised, right around the world????""

Either you are being deliberately obtuse, or you are once again missing the point.

"Band Aid", and "Live Aid", were not examples of somebody giving to charity, and using that fact for purposes of self aggrandisement. In both cases they were about persuading others to donate, and that of course is impossible without publicity. It is of course possible for both poor, and unknown, people to do this.

The other side of the coin is somebody donating their own money to charity (the case with Mr Mayer), and that can be done without any publicity at all, unless of course the publicity was the whole point of doing it in the first place.

Don T.