The Nightwatchman's Call To Arms

AT&T are being called out by Pearl Jam and Tom Morello for their apparent censorship of anti-Bush statements from their Blue Room webcasts.

To the tune of "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)," Pearl Jam inserted some verses critical of our current President into their Lollapalooza performance of "Daughter." However, the Pink Floyd segue was conspicuously missing from the webcast. "This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media," says a statement on the grunge icons' Web site. "AT&T's actions strike at the heart of the public's concerns over the power that corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and hears through communications media."

To highlight the issue, Pearl Jam has posted both the Blue Room webcast and the raw unedited footage on their site.

According to Tom Morello, the telecommunications giant has experience in this type of selective broadcasting, deleting his expressions of disgust for George W. Bush and his administration from their Bonnaroo webcast of his acoustic Nightwatchman set. However, he needs your help in proving it. In order to rebut AT&T's denial of censorship, The Nightwatchman (yes, he still refers to himself in the third person) needs a captured stream of the webcast and is in search of a fan who recorded the performance from AT&T's feed.

If you can help The Nightwatchman, please let him know through his myspace page.