Russell Chapman wrote:
>
> "John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> > At 03:47 AM 9/22/01 -0500 Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> > >And if this was supposed to be a telethon, where was the toteboard showing
> > >how much had been contributed?
> >
> > Yeah, I was bummed by that too.
>
> Coverage here suggested that the tote was astronomical - something in the order
> of half a Billion dollars from all over the world - even if it was being
> reported in our Pacific Pesos, that's still a quarter Billion US - big money
> from a telethon that seemed to pop up out of nowhere with almost no promotion.
I saw yesterday on MSNBC that it would be a few days before they knew
just how much they'd raised with it.
I imagine that once they have a grand total, someone who's monitoring
news sites more closely than I will post a figure and a link to a
relevant article. :)
Julia
