U2's Bono will be writing six to ten op-eds over the next year for the New York Times. His salary: free.
"The man who rose to fame singing about how he "can't believe the news today," will soon become a regular Times contributor, editorial-page editor Andrew Rosenthal told a group of Columbia University Journalism School students last night.
Before you start whinging about his politics, you'll be surprised to hear:
"Saint Bono won't be using this platform to opine on his pet issues of AIDS, African debt relief, global warming, and assorted other world ills — instead, he's actually been assigned to write about music."
U2's Bono will be writing six to ten op-eds over the next year for the New York Times. His salary: free.
