Sure it is a mistake. Always the contracter J
From: Jay Fenello
[mailto:Jay@fenello.com]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 11:36 PM
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: Dave Farber
Subject: AT&T Says It Didn't Censor Pearl Jam
Hi Dave,
For IP ...
AT&T Says It Didn't Censor Pearl Jam
Grant Gross, IDG News Service Thu Aug 9, 4:00 PM ET
U.S. rock band Pearl Jam is crying foul after an AT&T webcast censored
politically themed lyrics by lead singer Eddie Vedder, but the telecom giant
said Thursday the editing was a mistake by a contractor.
...
Vedder, who has frequently criticized U.S. President George Bush, started
ad-libbing during the group's performance
of its popular song, "Daughter." To the tune of Pink Floyd's
"Another Brick in the Wall," Vedder sung, "George Bush, leave
this world alone," and "George Bush find yourself another home."
Those lines were edited out of the Webcast after Vedder sneaked in one line
criticizing Bush.
...
Pearl Jam used the editing to call for the U.S. government to pass net
neutrality rules prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing Web
content that uses their pipes.
"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," Pearl Jam said on its Web
site. "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 said it's concerned about consolidation among broadband providers,
leaving consumers few options. "If a company that is controlling a webcast
is cutting out bits of our performance-- not based on laws, but on their own
preferences and interpretations-- fans have little choice but to watch the
censored version," the band said. "What happened to us this weekend
was a wake-up call, and it's about something much bigger than the censorship of
a rock band."
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