So according to a news article I read on E!, Pearl Jam stands by the belief that during a recent webcast representatives of AT&T chose to censor negative political remarks made by Eddie Vedder regarding President Bush. AT&T states that the censorship was at the hands of a contracted vendor, Davey Brown Entertainment, who states it was simply an accident.

“It was a mistake,” Adam Smith, the company’s executive vice president, told MTV News. “Our policy is not to edit any performance at all—never, ever. We take responsibility for the mistake.”

Apologies abound, and heineys will get kissed, but at the end of the day I have to wonder…

A webcast that reaches millions of Pearl Jam fans could have carried that political message just fine… But what does the censorship of that same message do to increase its’ volume?

~WC~