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Hawkeyeland Photog
08-11-2006, 04:24 PM
Interesting article from the Minneapolis Star Tribune about the Vikings policy with regards to shooting injuries:

http://www.startribune.com/129/story/608027.html
Baltimore Shooter
08-11-2006, 04:56 PM
It's a sad day when the NFL says waht can and can not air. First the FCC, then rent-a-cops now the NFL teams.

I say F them, air it anyway. "The message was simple: Air the video and there could be consequences."... Who the F are they to say what can and what can not make it to air?

Warren
Just Wondering
08-11-2006, 05:08 PM
I know this is Pie-in-the-Sky..... But.....What if we just STOPPED covering the NFL, NBA, MLB ?
Baltimore Shooter
08-11-2006, 05:10 PM
I know this is Pie-in-the-Sky..... But.....What if we just STOPPED covering the NFL, NBA, MLB ?

BINGO! That's what we need to do. Those leagues have "become too big for their britches" as the old timers say.

Warren
Dink
08-12-2006, 08:45 AM
It's a sad day when the NFL says waht can and can not air. First the FCC, then rent-a-cops now the NFL teams.

Private companies have ALWAYS had the right to dictate the terms under which you have access to their operations. If you don't like their access policy, the answer is simple:

Don't go.
Clutch City
08-12-2006, 09:14 AM
I know this is Pie-in-the-Sky..... But.....What if we just STOPPED covering the NFL, NBA, MLB ?

The problem is there's always one station that won't go along thinking they'll get all the scoops or whatever.

I have no problems with the NBA or MLB. The teams in our town have been great to deal with and seem to actually enjoy us being there, unlike the NFL team.
Clutch City
08-12-2006, 09:18 AM
This reminds me on an incident at Texans mini camp earlier this year. I was shooting some one on one drills between the offensive and defensive line. After I got through, the PR guy came over and said I couldn't shoot that. Soon afterward he huddled with all of the other pr staff then came over to all of the photogs and said, "could you guys not run any of that footage? We aren't allowed to do that drill." Meaning they could get in trouble by the NFL. Seems like a dumb rule but I wish I would have aired it and burned them now.
satop
08-12-2006, 10:32 PM
Private companies have ALWAYS had the right to dictate the terms under which you have access to their operations. If you don't like their access policy, the answer is simple:

Don't go.


That might be true, but the NFL issues the credintials not the team. And they are for access. Once we are there the team really can't tell us what we can and can't shoot. they can limit us like the first 10 minutes only, but that can't say if # 3 catchs the ball you have to stop shooting....that is what they are trying to do with this I believe. They want to control our coverage of their product.