A veritable hit parade on the Times op-ed page:
U2’s Bono is the latest columnist to be hired by New York’s esteemed newspaper. Editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal announced the decision at Columbia’s School of Journalism this week…
The New York Times also expressed an interest in bringing Queen’s Brian May back to the pages of the paper. The guitarist – who recently earned his doctorate in astrophysics – has already written about space for the New York Times website. Rosenthal said he was a fan, too, of previous op-eds by Bruce Springsteen.
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.”
Oh, well, that’s okay then. As Bono famously told Benny and Bjorn from Abba, “We are not worthy.”