Big Media behaving badly.

Normally, we tell you when Big Media is behaving badly. But this time we caught it on video. It's outrageous. See for yourself.

EXHIBIT A: Sam Zell, the new owner of media giant Tribune Company dropped an "F-bomb" on one of his journalists when she asked him about the balance between profitmaking and investing in newsgathering.

Tribune’s New Owner Drops the F-Bomb (0:43)

EXHIBIT B: During the taping of a talk show produced by AT&T, the control room shut down production moments after a guest criticized AT&T's plans to filter Web content. Fortunately that guest, Joel Johnson of the blog Boing Boing, had a friend secretly videotape the segment from the audience. Now you can see what AT&T doesn’t want you to know.

AT&T Shuts Down the Program (1:02)

So there you have it. Tribune Company doesn’t want anything like journalism to get in the way of Zell’s profits. And AT&T keeps telling us that Net Neutrality isn’t needed, that we should just “trust them” not to censor the Internet. But they won’t even allow someone to raise the issue on their show.


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