Censoring of Song Was an Error, AT&T Says

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Lyrics sung by Pearl Jam criticizing President Bush during a concert last weekend in Chicago should not have been censored during a Webcast by AT&T, a company spokesman said Thursday.

AT&T, through its Blue Room entertainment site, offered a Webcast of the band’s headlining performance Sunday at the Lollapalooza concert. The event was shown with a brief delay so the company could bleep out excessive profanity or nudity.

But monitors hired by AT&T through a vendor also cut two lines from a song to the tune of “Another Brick in the Wall” by Pink Floyd. One was “George Bush leave this world alone,” and the other was “George Bush find yourself another home,” according to the band’s Web site.

The AT&T spokesman, Michael Coe, said that the silencing was a mistake and that the company was working with the vendor that produces the Webcasts to avoid future misunderstandings.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/business/media/10censor.html


aw, working to avoid future misunderstandings - sounds like rove wrote that crap himself

[jgraz]

1. Instead they'll just be tapping Pearl Jam's home phones

[derby378]

2. Got caught censoring, eh? Let's try some BULLSHIT!!

:mad:

[The Count]

3. All righty then...I am so very relieved! The future looks so bright!

[Rex]

4. AT&T works for the federal government.

Have been for decades.

[SoCalDem]

5. No it wasn't,, They did it on purpose.. the error? they got CAUGHT

:grr:

[TahitiNut]

6. Understandable. After all, “George Bush" IS an obscenity. I'd bleep it, too.

:silly:

[countmyvote4real]

7. And then there's the iPhone.

I cannot have one because I can't afford it.

I will not have one because it requires a connection that I severored with Big Brother/AT&T.

[marmar]

8. Es mierda del toro.....

A big heaping pile of it.