media question- sun 30th

[saintbrat]

is there not much on the saints blues game in either of the major papers today- there doesn't appear to be much online and wondered what pics are in?
gsp collection
http://www.gspimages.com.au/photography ... b_code=all

[The Peanut]

is there not much on the saints blues game in either of the major papers today- there doesn't appear to be much online and wondered what pics are in?
gsp collection
http://www.gspimages.com.au/photography ... b_code=all

Perhaps this has something to do with it ...

Papers to be denied AFL photos
By Doug Conway
March 26, 2008

AFL fans in regional areas face missing out on football photos in local newspapers because of a dispute which focuses new attention on the issue of unrestricted media access to sport.

The AFL's decision to lock out photographers from the national news agency AAP effectively isolates readers of 14 regional newspapers in Queensland and two in Victoria.

Queensland's APN papers, along with independents in Shepparton and Mildura, are not covered by Australia's two major media groups, News Ltd and Fairfax, which have reached photo agreements with the AFL.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says he is "very concerned" about the trend by sporting organisations to restrict the media's right to independently report the news.

"I encourage the parties to come together to resolve these issues so that the members of the public, particularly in rural and regional Australia, are not unfairly disadvantaged," he said.

APN group executive editor Peter Owen said: "I am concerned that the actions of the AFL are depriving our 500,000 readers of what they are entitled to expect from a newspaper – pictorial coverage of the game they love."

Fairfax spokesman Bruce Wolpe said: "Regional and rural Australia is being disenfranchised from robust AFL coverage by the effort to fully privatise access to photograph a public event."

AAP has been barred from sending photographers to AFL matches, though its reporters can still provide print coverage, in a row the agency says is about press freedom, but which the AFL insists is all about money.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23 ... 02,00.html