According to Pearl Jam's website, portions of the band's Sunday night set at Lollapalooza were missing from the AT&T Blue Room live webcast. Fans alerted the band to the missing material after the show. Reportedly absent from the webcast were segments of the band's performance of "Daughter," including the sung lines "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush find yourself another home."
Tiffany Nels, of AT&T, had this to say ...
We regret the mistake. This was not intended and was an unfortunate mistake made by a webcast editor.
She also went on to explain that AT&T has a policy for any excessive language, and that it was set up because of its all-ages audience.
Jundi, of Above and Beyond, had this to say ...
Bullshit!
Pearl Jam, had this to say ...
This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media.
AT&T's actions strike at the heart of the public's concerns over the power that corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and hears through communications media.
The band went on to point out that "most telecommunications companies oppose 'net neutrality' and argue that the public can trust them not to censor."
Jundi had this to say ...
Right on!
August 9, 2007
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3 comments:
Ahh, even more corporate censorship aimed at the arts. Something must be done soon.
there was a pew poll conducted the other day that found about half of americans dont trust corporate media
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_public_sees_news_media_as_biased_08092007.html
click on show original post to see the complete url
and welcome to da roll :)
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