This is what modern right wing investigative journalism is about: no standards, professional, journalistic or moral. One obtains an interview with a major figure like Bono through a press agent, one does not just come up to him.
And neither would a figure of his public stature give a casual interview to some goombah off the street, he would appear on a major network with a known interviewer. They were just too full of themselves and oblivious of the facts to even begin to think in these terms.
Ot to put in it Sergey’s terms: In Soviet Union, Bono vets you!!!