Fall Out Boy slam 'sensationalist' article

Fall Out Boy have slammed the write-up of a magazine interview they gave as "sensationalist", insisting that the journalist fabricated stories and misquoted them.

The band are unhappy about how the interview, published in the February issue of Blender, portrays them.

The allegedly fabricated stories include drummer Andy Hurley punching a door after watching his football team lose and singer Patrick Stump's confession that he once quit the band.

"The Blender article is pure b******t," Hurley wrote on his blog."It's sensationalist b******t made up to sell a story. It's [full of] out-of-context quotes."

Stump told MTV that the band were particularly upset at how the journalist portrayed bassist Pete Wentz, saying: "It's an entertaining article that manages to take its hero from the heights of superstardom to the depths of narcissism. But it never redeems him and it does so at the cost of fact."

"If only we had had that media training," he added. "We would know how better to fabricate pull quotes!"

However, a representative for Blender has defended the article, saying: "We stand by our reporting. Anyone who reads the entire article will see that it is not only fair but essentially positive."