Audio: What Trent Reznor said to News.com
Rocker Trent Reznor is angry with CNET News.com.
On Monday afternoon, the leader of the band Nine Inch Nails posted a blog at NIN.com and accused me of misquoting him in a question-and-answer interview titled: "Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5." He suggests in his post that he did not make statements supporting a music tax on ISPs that appeared in the January 10 article. He also implies that CNET had some kind of hidden agenda when he writes in his post that the story was "written before I was involved."
It's not uncommon for celebrities and politicians to accuse the press of misquoting them. Sometimes it's true. Not here.
Below is the recording of Reznor's comments in question.
Reznor gave me permission to tape the interview and the words in the story are as he said them. I've also included what was said immediately prior and following the comments about the ISP tax so you can hear the context in which he made them.
You'll notice that I didn't quote everything he said; that's common practice. (We spoke for an hour and the final transcription of the interview was more than 4,000 words long. Normally our stories are between 1,000 and 1,200 words. We wanted to give him as much room as possible to speak and made an exception by publishing his interview at more than 1,800 words, already longer than usual.)
Reznor is a fascinating interview. He is frank and always says something controversial. He certainly was in our interview. Click the button below and listen for yourself.
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by nordlyss
January 23, 2008 4:43 AM PST
- Greg, honestly. I do believe your intentions were good, but you messed it all up. The obvious (now) fact is that you either misunderstood the initial message or you got it right but put in the article the way that the readers were almost guaranteed to misinterpret everything. As a result, you made your interviewee look like an arrogant fool? and now you are blaming him for not being content with it!
Then here you are using a news site ? mass media, not your personal blog! ? in an attempt to rehabilitate yourself ? i.e. for personal purpose. And you are doing so not by acknowledging the mistake and providing a correct interpretation, but by putting all the blame on Reznor.
All this looks just terribly unprofessional and embarrassing. You?d better spot right now and simply apologize.
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