Downtheline
Babyface
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2004
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Hi all
This is the simple truth:
A member of my family had some interaction with some of the folks at the interference website after they sought out and emailed us first. They became persistent. The end result was a bogus interview with who they assumed on their own was a member of U2 and some bogus postings.
There never was any permission given to print this interview. There was never any claim on this side of it to be the Edge or Bono or anyone else involved with U2 for that matter. This was mistakenly assumed by the interference representative and I have the emails to prove it.
There was never anything malicious said . The interview was pieced together from pieces of old U2 interviews found throughout the web. There are literally thousands on the net. Anything else that was posted was a pure guess. Which...some have been shown to be wrong.
I think that the folks at that website were wrong for assuming what they did and printing without permission. In journalism, you have to know and trust your source(confirmation). BUT, in all fairness...anyone who posts here should NOT blame them, for it simply was not totally their fault.
I You may have noticed that all postings have stopped and that is because I found out about this and took care of the situation.
All I can offer is a sincere apology.
With the country at War and a Presidential election around the corner,this doesnt amount to much in the real world. I just wanted to clear the air once and for all.
This is the simple truth:
A member of my family had some interaction with some of the folks at the interference website after they sought out and emailed us first. They became persistent. The end result was a bogus interview with who they assumed on their own was a member of U2 and some bogus postings.
There never was any permission given to print this interview. There was never any claim on this side of it to be the Edge or Bono or anyone else involved with U2 for that matter. This was mistakenly assumed by the interference representative and I have the emails to prove it.
There was never anything malicious said . The interview was pieced together from pieces of old U2 interviews found throughout the web. There are literally thousands on the net. Anything else that was posted was a pure guess. Which...some have been shown to be wrong.
I think that the folks at that website were wrong for assuming what they did and printing without permission. In journalism, you have to know and trust your source(confirmation). BUT, in all fairness...anyone who posts here should NOT blame them, for it simply was not totally their fault.
I You may have noticed that all postings have stopped and that is because I found out about this and took care of the situation.
All I can offer is a sincere apology.
With the country at War and a Presidential election around the corner,this doesnt amount to much in the real world. I just wanted to clear the air once and for all.