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Viacom, MTV Issue Employee Gag Order

Village Voice, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 12:05 AM

To ensure that anyone on the payroll for Viacom, the parent company of MTV, BET and Paramount Pictures, "upholds the highest standards of ethical behavior," Viacom sent employees a 48-page internal corporate memo, laying out detailed rules that govern each and every part of an employee's life, should it have any tangential connection to Viacom business. That includes personal blogs, outside jobs (even unpaid or charity work) and especially talking to the press.

Viacom is serious about corporate privacy: "You are discouraged from publicly discussing work-related matters, whether constituting confidential information or not, outside of appropriate work channels, including online, in chat rooms, on Web sites or in "blogs." The same restrictions apply to talking to the media.

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