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Posted by Mike Florio on June 12, 2008, 7:53 a.m. EDT
In an e-mail distributed by the Dallas Cowboys to various media types (and Internet hacks who have infiltrated the listserve), the team’s P.R. department explained club policy regarding online content.
The initial focal point of the policy is the league-wide policy severely limiting the amount of audio and/or video of interviews, press conferences, and team practices that may be posted on a web site. The rule was widely criticized in 2007, and it has been expanded from 45 seconds to 90 seconds per day. (In a prior version of this item, we hadn’t realized that the rule had expanded from 45 seconds to 90 seconds.)
There was a new twist at the bottom of the e-mail. Or, alternatively, a twist of which we weren’t previously aware.
“While a game is in progress, any forms of accounts of the game must be sufficiently time-delayed and limited in amount (e.g., score updates with detail given only in quarterly game updates, fewer than 10 photographs during the game) so that the Accredited Organization’s game coverage cannot be used as a substitute for, or otherwise approximate, authorized play-by-play accounts.”
In other words, no live blogging from the press box.
We’re in the process of determining whether this is a Cowboys-only policy, or whether it’s a league-wide rule.
And, more importantly, whether it also applies to boxers-and-KISS-T-shirt-wearing basement-dwellers who are watching the games on television.
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LEAGUE-WIDE LIVE BLOGGING POLICY NOT NEW
Posted by Mike Florio on June 12, 2008, 8:23 a.m.
Via communications with NFL spokesman Greg Aiello and another source who’ll remain nameless, we’ve learned that the no-live-blogging policy sent by the Cowboys to the media on Wednesday is not a new development, and that it applies to all NFL teams.
“It’s nothing new,” Aiello said via e-mail. “Those are the same rules we have had in place for several years for those that receive credentialed access to NFL facilities.”
Per information provided by the unnamed source, the e-mail circulated by the Cowboys regarding online content for 2008 is merely a cut-and-paste of a memo that was disseminated on June 11 by the league office, which announced the 100-percent expansion of the former 45-second rule, and which summarized the league’s online content policy.
So, for accredited media, there can be no live blogging from the press box. (We’ll keep that in mind if/when we ever get credentials to a game — and if we ever actually use them.) There’s no indication that this policy applies to live-blogging from the basement.
The real news here is that media sources will now be able to post on the Internet up to 90 seconds per day of interviews, press conferences, and practice video.
In an e-mail distributed by the Dallas Cowboys to various media types (and Internet hacks who have infiltrated the listserve), the team’s P.R. department explained club policy regarding online content.
The initial focal point of the policy is the league-wide policy severely limiting the amount of audio and/or video of interviews, press conferences, and team practices that may be posted on a web site. The rule was widely criticized in 2007, and it has been expanded from 45 seconds to 90 seconds per day. (In a prior version of this item, we hadn’t realized that the rule had expanded from 45 seconds to 90 seconds.)
There was a new twist at the bottom of the e-mail. Or, alternatively, a twist of which we weren’t previously aware.
“While a game is in progress, any forms of accounts of the game must be sufficiently time-delayed and limited in amount (e.g., score updates with detail given only in quarterly game updates, fewer than 10 photographs during the game) so that the Accredited Organization’s game coverage cannot be used as a substitute for, or otherwise approximate, authorized play-by-play accounts.”
In other words, no live blogging from the press box.
We’re in the process of determining whether this is a Cowboys-only policy, or whether it’s a league-wide rule.
And, more importantly, whether it also applies to boxers-and-KISS-T-shirt-wearing basement-dwellers who are watching the games on television.
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LEAGUE-WIDE LIVE BLOGGING POLICY NOT NEW
Posted by Mike Florio on June 12, 2008, 8:23 a.m.
Via communications with NFL spokesman Greg Aiello and another source who’ll remain nameless, we’ve learned that the no-live-blogging policy sent by the Cowboys to the media on Wednesday is not a new development, and that it applies to all NFL teams.
“It’s nothing new,” Aiello said via e-mail. “Those are the same rules we have had in place for several years for those that receive credentialed access to NFL facilities.”
Per information provided by the unnamed source, the e-mail circulated by the Cowboys regarding online content for 2008 is merely a cut-and-paste of a memo that was disseminated on June 11 by the league office, which announced the 100-percent expansion of the former 45-second rule, and which summarized the league’s online content policy.
So, for accredited media, there can be no live blogging from the press box. (We’ll keep that in mind if/when we ever get credentials to a game — and if we ever actually use them.) There’s no indication that this policy applies to live-blogging from the basement.
The real news here is that media sources will now be able to post on the Internet up to 90 seconds per day of interviews, press conferences, and practice video.
