Tag archive for ‘at&t’
Manufacturing con-(vention)-sent
Under the Federal Election Committee’s guidelines re-written in 1993, unions and corporations are forbidden from funneling unlimited contributions to political parties.
So last week when Congress provided immunity for telecom giants, such as AT&T, who are collaborators in the biggest spy bill passed in history, perhaps they weren’t looking for anything in return.
Except the fact that [...]
American Idol president
More on the ATT&T and Rock the Vote partnership we reported on a couple weeks ago… Here’s a video on the collaboration as it was announced in the weeks before the Iowa caucus. The idea is to get young people to text each other about politics and thus motivate each other to express [...]
rk the vt!
According to a press release we received yesterday, AT&T, acting with profitable civic-mindedness, has gotten together with Rock the Vote to encourage young voters to… send more text messages about politics?!
In fact, the program seems cool. Rock the Vote is aiming to register 2 million people under the age of 30 for the 2008 [...]
Hello, it’s us
Remember the classic Apple ads about revolution (“Your only limits will be the size of your ideas and the degree of your dedication!”)? It was funny then. It’s just plain sad now, especially after the archetypal corporate deal we’ve just witnessed, where Apple teamed with AT&T in the iPhone project, condemning users to Cingular wireless [...]
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