By Randy Covitz
The Kansas City Star
Published: 10/3/2006
Excerpt:
... The NFL is unquestionably the most successful and popular sports
league in America, fueled by record attendance in 2005, off-the-chart
television ratings and a TV contract worth nearly $25 billion over the
next six years.
That kind of interest demands accurate, in-depth reporting by
newspapers, radio and television stations and Internet sites, where
fans historically have gotten most of their information on their
favorite teams. It requires access to players, head coaches, assistant
coaches and practices.
But the proliferation of so much new media, including talk-radio and
Web sites -- not to mention the immense pressure on head coaches to win -- has led to an uneasy coexistence and even a distrust between the
teams and reporters. ...
... The Washington Post and The Associated Press, together with
their attorneys, plan to ask new NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for
permission to show postgame coverage online. Jenks will endorse the
request on behalf of APSE, which counts more than 600 newspapers among
its membership. ...
(Greg Aiello, the NFL's vice president for public relations) emphasized that newspapers can post video interviews of
players and coaches from weekday news conferences and open locker rooms
on Web sites in addition to transcripts from game-day coverage.
"That sounds really nice, but the reality is the written transcript
is very different from the audio or the video," said Bob Steele, a
senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a training and research
institute for journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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