{"id":38502,"date":"2009-11-09T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/1123496835.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-09T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T14:02:00","slug":"irony-u2s-free-concert-at-the-berlin-wall-blocked-by-a-big-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/38502","title":{"rendered":"Irony: U2&#8217;s &#8216;Free&#8217; Concert At The Berlin Wall, Blocked By A Big Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/profile.php?u=dementia\">Dementia<\/a> writes in to point out the rather ironic situation of a &#8220;free&#8221; concert put on by the band U2, at the remains of the Berlin Wall in order to celebrate the demise of the wall&#8230; but MTV decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/new.music.yahoo.com\/u2\/news\/outrage-over-wall-blocking-free-u2-berlin-concert--61995930\" >put up a big temporary barrier around the event<\/a> so those who didn&#8217;t have free tickets could not even see the event.  Yes, they erected a special &#8220;wall&#8221; to block out a free concert about The Wall.  As Dementia noted with the submission, &#8220;you&#8217;re doing it wrong&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/1123496835.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/1123496835.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091106\/1123496835&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=d6bc335831b367ab24a6c7b6b2fc3281&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=d6bc335831b367ab24a6c7b6b2fc3281&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=QTxZo_DK94Q:MVIowjf8V7Q:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=QTxZo_DK94Q:MVIowjf8V7Q:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=QTxZo_DK94Q:MVIowjf8V7Q:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/QTxZo_DK94Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dementia writes in to point out the rather ironic situation of a &#8220;free&#8221; concert put on by the band U2, at the remains of the Berlin Wall in order to celebrate the demise of the wall&#8230; but MTV decided to put up a big temporary barrier around the event so those who didn&#8217;t have free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}