As you may or may not have heard by now, Pearl Jam had their Lollapolooza performance censored in the webcast that AT&T was broadcasting for the stop in Chicago. Apparently during the performance of ‘Daughter’ they segued into ‘Another Brick In The Wall’, which they have been prone to do. Well, during this performance they used the lyrics “George Bush, leave this world alone” and “George Bush, find yourself another home”. But if you were listening via AT&T’s Blue Room service, you never heard these lyrics. They were censored out.

This highlights a very big concern of mine that we should all be paying attention to, and that is the shear amount of control that major corporations have over what news and messages we see and hear. AT&T apologized and said that it never was supposed to have happened, but I say that’s not good enough. It DID happen, regardless of the intent and THAT is the problem.

If you’d like to read more about it, you can follow up with this article from Reuters for more of the details. In the meantime, I encourage you to talk about this amongst your friends and blog about it on your websites. This issue needs more attention and this particular incident is just egregious enough to catch peoples interest.