Los Angeles Times reports YEA! beats Shakespeare in Chase Community Giving
Neon Vincent
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Shakespeare not a hit with voters in online charity contest
William Shakespeare would be a front-runner if experts were to vote on the
greatest creative artist of all time, but he was just an also-ran in the
Chase Community Giving competition, an online charity-by-popular-vote
contest that ended Wednesday night.
JPMorgan Chase will donate $3.125 million to the top 25 vote-getters; the
other 75 -– including the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, which finished
51st -- get $25,000 each for making the final round of 100.
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The top arts vote-getter was Pennsylvania-based Youth Education in the
Arts, which will use its $225,000 fourth-place money to launch March 4
Music, a nationwide fund-raising campaign for high school band programs.
Other arts groups -- apart from four drum-and-bugle corps -- were the
National Assn. for Music Education (37th), Music For All (38th), the
Wheeling (W.Va.) Symphony (48th), Symphony Silicon Valley (59th), Kansas
City (Mo.) Repertory Theatre (75th), Women Make Movies Inc. of New York
City (85th) and Architecture for Humanity of San Francisco (95th).
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Neon Vincent
Catherine
#-- Shakespeare is less in need of "stimulus packages". Yet another
example of democracy/popularity contests/awards/polls being
"eggsellence" as opposed to excellence.
#-- Shakespeare, being a genuinely great human achiever, puts the
wannabes to shame. There are far fewer who value Shakespeare who
would stoop to diverting funding from more deserving groups, on the
merits, particularly to fund a fraud. DCIA, having such a well-
established network which doesn't mind making a fraudulent business
from what ought to be charitable causes, was well-positioned to gather
votes, one way or another.
#-- Shakespeare is less subject to revisionism - and exploitation.
Hence, fewer parasites to vote and market for voters.
#-- What is genuine, like Shakespeare, endures on its merits.
Shakespeare will still be celebrated, studied, learned from and
enjoyed when all the other groups mentioned above are forgotten.
-- Catherine