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Naomi Campbell, blood diamonds and a media feeding frenzy
August 06, 2010
(Guardian) Congratulations, murdered and mutilated Sierra Leoneans! You finally have a celebrity angle, meaning your obscure little story has been given its brief moment in the limelight, before being reassigned the sort of news value that couldn't hope to trump a Cesc Fabregas transfer rumour.
And so to Naomi Campbell's testimony at the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in The Hague. Who'd have thought the first Campbell to be summoned to The Hague would be Naomi? At this rate, the first Blair to be subpoenaed will be Lionel, with the old trouper accused of accepting a ruby tie-pin from the Burmese military junta during his ill-fated Name That Tune, Rangoon! tour in 1987.