Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Sequel to Kony 2012 takes on critics, appeals less to emotion

Screen shot from the new Kony 2012 video by Invisible Children.
Screen shot from the new Kony 2012 video by Invisible Children.

This time, the video by Invisible Children is not so much a repeat of their first call to action as a defense of their action.

It’s kind of like when the Star Wars franchise put out a sequel that actually went back in time to explain how everything got started.

Read more on Humanosphere.

The host of the Humanosphere community is Tom Paulson, who spent 22 years reporting on science and medicine at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Tom was one of the first daily news reporters to cover the topic of “global health” (a much-debated label which he discusses the merits of on the Humanosphere website).