» u2 http://www.news-geek.com/blog Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:44:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 BU Student Reports on “Secret” Boston U2 Concert and Gets on Headline News http://www.news-geek.com/blog/bu-student-reports-on-secret-boston-u2-concert-and-gets-on-headline-news/ http://www.news-geek.com/blog/bu-student-reports-on-secret-boston-u2-concert-and-gets-on-headline-news/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:32:06 +0000 Rima http://www.news-geek.com/blog/?p=251 In case you haven’t heard, the members of U2 are taking cues from The Beatles these days and putting on “secret” concerts. Bono and the gang played one show last night at Davis Square’s Somerville Theatre, a mere ten-minute walk from my home and one of the tiniest non-bar venues the band could have chosen for this occasion. Were it not for the internet, I suspect the event would also have been just as “low key” as the later Beatles shows were.

Justin Meisinger, a teaching assistant for the JO540 New Media discussion section, reported on the concert for CNN’s citizen journalism service, iReport. The report (as well as an interview with Meisinger) eventually found its way to Headline News. You can watch the segment below:

Thanks to my colleague Steve Garfield for putting this video online.

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