not quite true. the Horn camp would’ve paid for Joe’s trip… hence the easy decision to send the crew.
As I said before, there is nothing that a journo on the ground can add that they can’t receive from the press offices of the clubs — look at all the Cricket Australia vision used by the networks… AFL clubs? League clubs?
You lot seriously get so wound up by decisions ten makes or doesn’t make that you’re blind to the others. Just because CBS bought them doesn’t mean there’s a sudden magic pot of gold to dip their frequent flyer cards into — I’d much rather see news about the William Tyrel investigation, two crews sent, or the Singapore Summit, one crew sent.
Get some perspective, soccer is sport which will never get priority on field trips.
The supplied vision should be a last resort. Otherwise you’re allowing the suppliers to control the narrative by not including answers they don’t like to questions they don’t like (injuries, form, other controversies). The role of a journo is to cut through the spin rather than cheerlead for a team. To say they could do the same job at home as they could on the ground is ludicrous. Every time I see a network using supplied vision it makes me think they’re cheap.
The holding of the FIFA World Cup is not a surprise, it’s been in the calendar for a while and we’ve know Australia is going since late last year.
We all know Ten (and all media) are under financial strain but some events you have to take the hit on. This isn’t a CBS issue, it’s a planning issue.
Totally agree with you. Its also getting to the point where afl teams will shoot their own press conferences and hand it out to the networks. In that case the networks think ok…we just wont give you as much publicity anymore which some newsrooms are quite happy about.
Ten had to use a freelancer Eamonn Ashton-Atkinson to cross live to Kazan and do a report on the Australia game.
Well there you go they needed a reporter and should’ve just sent one of their own. At least they did cover it with an Australian voice and short live cross.
