Nicole Brodeur, Seattle Times Staff Columnist should be fired until she supplies her employers with proof that she has successfully completed a 12-grade public school Civics course.
On Friday she wrote about the local grunge-rockers, Pearl Jam, getting a section of their performance of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” cut out by the webcasting portion of the AT&T Corporation. The portion which was cut was only one of the multiple rantings from PJ’s VoxMan, Eddie Vedder, against Bush that night.
Brodeur doesn’t care if it was a mistake or deliberate on AT&T’s part, she is declaring it censorship.
Brodeur is an idiot. If she doesn’t understand the concept of censorship enough to know that the only entity that is capable of it is government, then maybe she should go back to being a private idiot, and not risk being one in public and dragging the Times along with her.
Go ahead, click the link and read the stupidity. Make sure you scroll down to the bottom where she provides you with a link to PJ’s site. It just so happens that at that site you can see the unedited version of that tune. The unedited version which was released to be replayed by the band anywhere they damned well please by none other than, AT&T.
Oh yeah, that’s some heavy censorship, baby.