Idolator

The controversy over AT&T's blueroom chopping out some anti-administration rhetoric from Pearl Jam's performance of "Another Brick In The Wall" at Lollapalooza heated up over the weekend, with Chicago Sun-Times critic Jim DeRogatis tying the incident into his tireless complaining about Lollapalooza's overwhelming corporate sponsorship, the Daily Swarm scouring message boards for incidents of the sound dropping out on other blueroom performers, and Wired's Listening Post blog finding that there was no "editing for content" clause in the release handed out to performers. One question that remains, though: Why is AT&T censoring for content in the first place, when its site makes no mention of the fact that live content is pre-screened before being beamed to the world? More »