Live IPL 2009 News : News agencies to boycott IPL
Major international news agencies would not be covering this year’s IPL because they are unhappy with the tournament’s media guidelines. They had boycotted the previous year’s IPL for the same reason.
The News Media Coalition, the umbrella body that comprises global news and photograph agencies Reuters, AP, AFP and Getty Images, has failed to get the tournament’s organisers to amend the conditions.
Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman, refused to change rules which barred the distribution of photographs and news to cricket-specific websites. The IPL has an exclusive agreement to supply news and photos about the Twenty20 tournament to one website.
“We can’t allow the sponsor of a newsworthy event to specify where news gets distributed,” Dave Tomlin, the AP’s associate general counsel, said. “This is a case in which a sports association is now in the information business too and is trying to carve out an exclusive segment of the news market as its own to exploit. It’s wrong.”
Last year, besides agencies, news channels in India had also threatened a boycott over the constraints laid down by the IPL before agreeing to cover it after the tournament’s organisers acceded to their main demands
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