Bono to become New York Times columnist

In the music section of the news website http://www.guardian.co.uk Sean Michaels talks us briefly about how musician become columnist in newspapers specially the case of Bono in the New York Times, who will write about poverty, Africa and Frank Sinatra between different topics in 10 articles.
Michaels talks about musicians like liberal persons, being some kind of threat to the conservative editorial line focused on their columnists, who, as Sean said lies in print. This is the case for columnists like Condoleezza Rice, who is a bad opened writer in the New York Times.
However this contribution to the New York Times is caused by an old personal interest of Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor, which is really involved in music, by playing guitar. This is the connection between the editor and Bono, and that was the main factor that made possible this contribution of Bono into the New York Times.
Besides Sean Michaels is expecting for new collaborations as columnist in the pages of the paper like Bruce Springsteen , an American songwriter, singer and guitarist, and Brian May, an English musician from the Queen band playing the rol of lead guitarist and also know for being an astrophysicist.