User:Tesseract2/Sandbox

wha... get outta here!

In the media
Joseph Kony received a surge of attention in early March, 2012 with the release of a short documentary called "Kony 2012". The 30 minute documentary was made by the campaign group Invisible Children, as well as filmaker Jason Russell. The film's stated aim is to make Joseph Kony famous (explaining that his fame would enable the United States to justify getting involved in Kony's capture). Michael Geheren, blogger for the huffington post, writes "The 27-minute video was posted on Vimeo and YouTube by Invisible Children and became a worldwide trending topic on the Internet...Personally, I have never seen an outpour of support from people on my Facebook news feed like this." The Telegraph online mentioned the video, pointing out that it quickly started receiving attention from celebrities. . Elizabeth Flock, writer for the Washington Post, offered more background on the LRA as well as Invisible Children in response to the documentary. Flock (as well as The Toronto Star) adds that Invisible Children hopes to raise Kony's notoriety enough to provoke an overnight postering on April 20.