Tuesday, May 24

Kot Uses U2 Story for Publicity Push?
Does it feel like Trib Rock Writer Greg Kot orchestrated a perfect little controversy and garned himself some extra attention with this U2 coup? Seems like it. It's not hard to attack a long-time mainstream band like U2 for thier live shows, say Coldplay outperformed them and watch your name pop up all over the place. Come on - are we all really supposed to get caught up in this Trib manufactured hype? Now Kot has another interview with Bono published as a follow up. What a great marketing ploy. Does Kot have a book coming out or something? Or are Kot and the Trib just looking for new ways to sell papers since circulation is down? Whichever - FlowFeel ain't buying it!

8:09 PM

1 Comments:

At 5/25/2005 11:35:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It does feel like the messenger has become the message. I was always wary of critics who get their fat salaries through a commerical enterprise pick on musicians for doing commercial things. I don't understand what Kot's big deal is about U2 appearing at the superbowl and at the Grammy's. Kot, do I need to tell you the obvious: Grammy's is a show about music and U2 belongs there.

 

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