Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Is It Because Conservatives Can't Sing?
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_10_19-2008_10_25.shtml#1224864399
The UK Guardian [1]reports on the New York Times' decision to hire
U2's Bono as an occasional columnist for 2009.
U2's Bono is the latest columnist to be hired by New York's
esteemed newspaper. . . . the former Nobel Peace Prize nominee will
pen between six and 10 articles over the course of 2009.
Bono will wax lyrical (or actually, less lyrical than normal) on
the topics of Africa, poverty and Frank Sinatra, Rosenthal said.
The article also quotes Rosenthal suggesting he'd like to publish
other celebrity opinions and commentary as well. And then there's this
tidbit:
Though rockers and pop stars are welcome, another group faces an
uphill battle on to the New York Times' editorial page -
conservatives. "[US Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice is a
particularly bad op-ed writer," Rosenthal said. However, the
problem doesn't end there. "The problem with conservative
columnists," Rosenthal said, "is that many of them lie in print."
And they can't sing.
References
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/24/bono-new-york-times-columnist
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