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Totalitarian media
By Will 2 years ago, mid-November Add your comment below
A considered, accurate, and bloody good piece by David Hopps at The Guardian on the problems facing cricket’s media. You might think that the likes of us (Cricinfo) and newspapers are nothing more than freeloading loafers with inflated egos and an unhealthy appetite for free lunches. You’d be right for the most part, too, but this particular industry is in a state of flux.
CricInfo has endured this treatment for years. One of the most popular websites in the world is persistently refused accreditation by the BCCI because it does not fit in with their grand design. It has learned to scramble for accreditation where it can. Established newspapers, who feared CricInfo’s pioneering of free internet cricket news as much as the BCCI did, were not about to run to help. Had they done so, sports journalism in the independent, mainstream media might not be facing the threat that it is today.
Dozens of sports journalists were laid off at the end of the summer. Some were from the nationals, who have been covering cricket for two decades or more. Others were from regional newspapers who quite often have a cricket desk of one person. Quite what these people will do next year is anyone’s guess, but it’s a worrying time for cricket journalism as a whole.
As you’ll know, Reuters refused to cover Australia’s tour of Australia, and there were more difficulties with contractual terms in regard to Getty Images. And a few days ago, Reuters boycotted New Zealand’s tour of Australia. BCCI and Cricket Australia – and others in the future? – want editorial control over the photographs taken. They want to know who is using them and for what purpose. For the BCCI, they simply can’t cope with the idea that, for example, Cricinfo has been online since 1996 yet they only launched their website a few weeks ago. We had nearly three million people watch the last Test between India and Australia, and none of them had to pay. Apart from Australians. They had to pay in self respect.
So, public – watch out. These greedy boards are soiling themselves about the internet like it’s 1990 all over again, and instead of working with it, they’re fighting it. Dangerous times for all.
Tags: accreditation, BCCI, cricinfo, cricket-australia, media, reuters |
5 Responses to “Totalitarian media”
November 16th, 2008 at 5.37 am
November 16th, 2008 at 9.33 am
If you want to destroy an idea, treat it like gold and lock it in a vault. That’s what’s going on with cricket today.
It seems like there could be an opportunity for someone to start the world’s first “Open Source” sports league. That is, a league where the intellectual property (i.e. photos, videos, internet radio broadcasts, team logos, etc) is public domain (or at least Creative Commons licensed). This would be a radical change which would be to the long-term benefit of the sport. If the cricket boards decide to break with Allen Stanford, that’s what I’d suggest to him. I doubt the ICL folks would ever go for this idea because they’re part of a small media empire.
November 16th, 2008 at 10.07 am
BCCI autocartic??? Well just for memory sake…
1. Mike Deness bans 5 Indians for excessive appealing when Pollock in the same game did the same without getting noticed
2.Sledging and abusing and lying about catches taken when he was in a pact withAnil Kumble during the tests in australia.
3. Australians calling India a third world country as an excuse for their faliure here….So on
4. Rectification of Baised future tours programme controlled by australia and England to suit their financial needs
4. A immature australian media when it comes to printing point of views of both sides.
If u still think that the BCCI started it…..then buddy u must be either australian,english or a fan of Denesse and Darrell Hair….or Mathew Hayden.
November 16th, 2008 at 1.01 pm
“Reuter’s refused to cover Australia’s tour of Australia?”
I have to admit that’s a new one on me. Since when have Australia toured against themselves?
Would be very amusing if your prediction of national boards getting their come-uppance from the internet came true though….
November 17th, 2008 at 4.02 am
Will, I’m kinda surprised that you expected the BCCI to act differently.
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