Commonwealth Games media boycott grows as media companies object to conditions
Dissatisfaction with media reporting conditions has spread to an outright boycott of next year’s Commonwealth Games by Fairfax and News Corporation, with both companies stating they will not seek formal accreditation with the Games’ organisers.
On Monday, The Australian published a story stating News Corp would not be accrediting journalists for the games and Fairfax followed the move yesterday.
“We will not be signing up for Commonwealth Games 2018 accreditation under the current terms and rules required,” a Fairfax spokesperson told Mumbrella yesterday.
Dinosaurs running the show at GC2018.. great way to impact media coverage of an event that frankly hardly anyone cares about (other than a few days of swimming), good work!
How is this happening? Would it be a law firm, trying to fight hard to impress their client and the sponsors? Is it the sponsors putting pressure on the org?
Ultimately this event is great for SE Qld and Australia and needs to be publicised on all news outlets.
Next thing you know, the lawyers will be prosecuting attendee’s for hashtagging at the events……… #redtape over common sense.