So, what we see here is...
Nobody from the Chronicle has clicked on that Donation Page themselves to read the notice? Gee, that's might generous, folks.
Nobody bothers to use internal communications at the Chronicle to catch these mistakes? This includes e-mail, written memos, post-it notes on monitors, smoke signals, morse code rapped on a bathroom stall door, or some schmuck at the printing press screaming STOP THE PRESSES (in Espanol).
Chronicle staffers clicked on the link, didn't comprehend all those long fancy words, and just sent their donations along anyway?
The reporter has been hiding under a rock for a month and doesn't know that Doctors Without Borders put a lid on the collection pot?
Nobody from the Chronicle reads other news sources or watches other news sources that might possibly contain interviews with Doctors Without Borders representatives saying "THANK YOU! NOW GIVE TO OUR GENERAL FUND!"
The reporter was so exhausted looking up how to make a link in the Chronicle's publishing system that they didn't have the energy to click more than once to test it?
I'd put a chip on "Nobody called to verify the number, website, or the fact that Doctors Without Borders is still soliciting contributions for the tsunami victims."
Putting things into perspective
Aren't you glad that hundreds upon thousands of journalists are baying for access to every nook and cranny and tidbit and trivial procedure surrounding Michael Jackson's meaningless and inconsequential trial while Alan Greenspan continues to hold regularly-scheduled meetings about the Federal Reserve Rate which affect the lives of billions?
You show me someone on this planet not directly or indirectly affected by the Federal Reserve Rate, and I'll congratulate you on your discovery of a new species.
Just keep that into perspective when someone's described as an "award-winning" journalist covering that trial. It should make you wonder what exactly are they giving out awards for, and is it really an activity worth a reward.