Bono to buy Take-Two? continued...

Yesterday we brought you news that Bono's private equity firm, Elevation Partners, may be planning a $1 billion bid for Take-Two Interactive. However,
it's not all plain sailing for the lead singer of U2. In an editorial over at SFGate.com (featuring a token reference to a supposedly game inspired killing), the writer questions why Bono would want to tarnish his reputation as a "do-gooder" by associating himself with the Grand Theft Auto
franchise.

We agree that it'd be impossible for Bono to go through with this deal without this association being made. A
report earlier today showed that the GTA series could be worth up to 81% of the entire company's value.

But would buying the company that publishes this–admittedly very controversial–game necessarily give Bono a negative image? The editorial seems to be based on the flimsy logic that a) violent games create violent people, b) if Bono wants to keep his halo, he better not invest in a company that publishes violent games. We can't help but think that if Bono was instead planning on buying the movie studios behind equally controversial films such as Natural Born Killers or Pulp Fiction,
there'd be less of an objection.

[Via digg]