Welcome to ODU 366 Class Blog!
This blog has been created for the class of "Public Journalism in the Digital Age" taught by Dr. Jinsun Lee in the Spring semester of 2011 at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. Each student will develop his/her own blog and network with bloggers.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
ODU Student protests Wachovia
When Haiti suffered its destructive quake a lot of charities offered help in the form of public donations. Some of these charitable sources were frauds and were actually stealing donations intended for relief. A surprising case of this came from Wachovia charging a 30 cent fee for international service. The money wasn't huge, but charging a fee for making a charitable donation seems unethical. Wachovia was making money from people trying to help out in Haiti. This charge struck a nerve in Heather Lynn. She fought back against Wachovia and demanded they cease collecting fees from donations. She created a group on the popular social network, facebook to show Wachovia just how many people agreed that this practice was unethical. In response to the over 1000 members of the "Wachovia = Fail" group, Wachovia refunded all service charges in Haiti donations.
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Mike? Why didn't you write your name in the subject line. Anyway, I know you are Mike!
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