Will It Soon Be "arise Sir Fogle" For Your Work With Charities?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3915184/Fogle-pockets-25-000-fee-dinner-speech-event-raised-4-200-children-s-hospice.html

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, of course my comparison flies. What you said doesn’t, in your opinion, apply to Terry Wogan. You've said so yourself.

[vulcan42]

You're a journalist andy, so you would know how they operate.

[Mamyalynne]

I am no fan of 'what ifs' but it's entirely possible that Ben's agents were approached by Beers Builders to book a speaker for their Centenary Gala with no mention of a Charity link.

Time will either tell or we'll never know.

[RandyMarsh]

But the simple fact is, a celebrity speaker will attract an audience, which will benefit the charity with raffles and donations on the night.

yep, like Terry Wogan and children in need, Naomi's comparison is valid.

[Mamyalynne]

Some Charities may pay out to gain attendance, however this occasion was a Gala Centenary for a Builders Merchants with an addition of a raffle/auction for the Charity, rather than a Charity event.

http://www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net/beers-celebrates-centenary-with-gala-dinner


I think the waters have been muddied on this particular occasion.

[Jackdaw33]

A measly £25k? Tony Blair wouldn't get out of bed for that!

[Lunol]

£25k x 4 would probably just cover Bliars private security for the evening to stop him being assaulted/Egged for his heinous part in those terrible war crimes he's brushed under the rug.

[andy-hughes]

RandyMarsh - //But the simple fact is, a celebrity speaker will attract an audience, which will benefit the charity with raffles and donations on the night.

yep, like Terry Wogan and children in need, Naomi's comparison is valid. //

Another invalid comparison!

Children In Need is a national BBC TV programme tailed for weeks in advance, and annual event which attracts an audience of millions. If you seriously believe that people tuned in just because Terry Wogan showed up twinkling away, you are dreaming - you could have put the studio tea lady there and people would still have tuned in in their millions!

[andy-hughes]

vulcan42 - //You're a journalist andy, so you would know how they operate. //

Actually, I'm not, I'm a music journalist, which is very different.

The field I work in is very specific, I deal with musicians and culture figures, not hard news, so I don't have to go through the scheming and lying and deviousness that creates a lot of the 'hard' news.

I wouldn't touch news journalism with someone else's barge pole, because the tales I hear from high profile musicians who are subject to their machinations are more than enough to put me off.