Chicagoist: AT&T Blue Room Knows What You Should Hear

RyanS

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:20:08 -0600

Honestly, as silly as the censorship thing is, you can't expect to headline a festival like Lollapalooza and be on a major and receive all the perks of superstardom without counting on things of this kind to happen due to the corporate interest in your venture. Vedder and co. have been "fighting" this sort of thing since I was a wee teenager, and its a bit tiresome for them to be playing gigantic venues with tens of thousands of screaming fans and have rabid radio play and expect that the corporations keeping them well-fed and -heeled don't want to maintain the status quo. If they (or anyone) are truly interested in speaking freely and not being beholden to anyone's interests, they need to spout all their opinions about Ticketmaster and venues and bad presidents from the understanding comfort on an independent label (a certain Omaha native takes the same stance on all those issues and has a pretty easy time of it on his indie label). Can't have it both ways...if anyone is counting on the MSM to play nice and be honest, then you have my pity.

guest

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:34:29 -0600

Someone should follow up on Davie-Brown Entertainment,the vendor AT&T uses to censor web casts. Davie-Brown, originally organized by Pepsico to get placement for Pepsico products in films is but one head of a hydra called the Omnicom Group. Other parts of Omnicom are involved in political PR. Could one or more of them have a contract with the RNC or Bush?

guest

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:43:22 -0600

Why would anyone censor such a boring opinion? Don't like the least popular president since polling began? Wow! How radical and dangerous!

guest

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:36:54 -0600

follow this up. according to wired, at&t has been doing this for a while with artists like the flaming lips and john butler trio...who knows who else? http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/08/has-att-censore.html