"IIn December 2007, we published an article entitled 'Morrissey: Big mouth strikes again'strikes again'.
"Following this, Morrissey began proceedings for libel against us. His complaint is that we accused him of being a racist off the back of an interview which he gave to the magazine. He believes the article was edited in such a way that made him seem reactionary.
"We wish to make clear that we do not believe that he is a racist; we didn't think we were saying he was and we apologise to Morrissey if he or anyone else misunderstood our piece in that way. We never set out to upset Morrissey and we hope we can both get back to doing what we do best."
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This is NME's too little too late response to Morrissey suing them for misquoting him and painting him as a racist.. I read the story and, the former Smith leadsinger has a damn ood case, plus, owned by Time/Warner, it is very hard to feel any sympathy for NME when a hefty settlement might get a new album out of Morrissey.
However, that fun fun fun court case ain't happening as both sides decided to call it quits.
The NME released this mealy mouthed excuse of an apology:
"NME is pleased that it has buried the hatchet with Morrissey in respect of the libel case he brought against us in 2007.
Morrissey sued over an article based on interviews with him which he believed accused him of racism.
After an ongoing dialogue with Morrissey and his representatives, NME today publishes a clarification in the magazine and online which makes it clear that we do not believe we ever called Morrissey a racist and nor do we believe he is.
We have said sorry to Morrissey for any misunderstanding that may have arisen.
The settlement with Morrissey does not involve payment of any damages or legal costs (other than a small sum of costs which the court ordered NME to pay last year when we applied unsuccessfully to have the case struck out on grounds of delay)."