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Let me put it this way...

A few channels here in Australia have broadcast a concert and the World vs Asia charity cricket match. Both of these made tonnes of money for the charities working in the damaged areas, phone companies said they would match dollar-for-dollarwhatever callers donated (and their calls in to the lines were free), they auctioned the jerseys the cricket players were wearing on Ebay for charity money etc etc etc.

But no one's asking how much the TV channels are making from the advertising though.

Yes, they're definitely being whored. They're a filler being used to sell advertising space, like a magazine or a newspaper article. But when you live in a society where there's a price on everything, what're you going to do about it? Sometimes you just have to shrug, do what you can to help the people and not invest any emotion in what these media-pimps are doing, because that's what they want. They want to get any kind of emotional response from you at all, because it means you're watching, which is the only thing they want. There is no such thing as bad publicity, there's only publicity, and being ignored.

So tell your friend ignorance is bliss and teach her that there's an off-button.