NFL Forces Photographers to Wear Product Logos
Although I wrote about this on my FotoCounty blog, I thought it might be of passing interest to professional journalists. The National Football League is forcing photographers who are covering NFL games to wear vests with a couple of corporate logos on them. Apparently it's not unheard of in the sports world to turn photojournalists into billboards. Here's the link to what I wrote. If they can get away with that with photographers, why not require writers to also don special gear?
Labels: advertising, NFL, photographers, photojournalists, sports
posted by Erik Sherman | 11:20 AM
1 Comments:
I heard about this the other day on some radio program... Can't remember which.
Apparently, that's just the tip of the iceberg, too. In addition to the Canon logos, the NFL is also limiting the amount of footage non-NFL sanctioned outlets can use in a given period of time. The example used on the radio show was that of a website that used to stream post-game interviews in their entirety, but now has to limit themselves to just a couple minutes.
The NFL certainly has a lot of pull, given its popularity, but I can't see this lasting. It apparently wasn't negotiated before it was implemented and there's a good deal of push-back from various media outlets on the deal.
Maybe this is all just the NFL's way of stifling all the bad press Michael Vick, Pacman Jones, and the rest have generated lately... hard to show all the footage you need to of the latest NFL felon AND cover the preseason all in under two minutes.
Justin
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