Just starting a topic here, moderators if you deem this link unworthy, please feel free to delete.

Ran across this, and I was wondering, what do you guys think of the media in the locker room?

Good thing, bad thing, doesn't matter?



Link might not be safe for work...its a legit interview, but there may be offensive material to some..


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22558921-2,00.html

There's no reason the media can't be in the locker room. Apparently that tape wasn't aired live and, if I understand it correctly, didn't air at all. The only reason it became public is because someone e-mailed the footage to a friend and it got put up on YouTube. This is a matter of an employee's misuse of the footage.

A couple things that I noticed...

1. The camera guy shouldn't have been so wide while shooting that interview to begin with

2. I'm glad the person who emailed the footage to a friend is no longer employed by Fox Sports. That's ridiculously unacceptable and unprofessional.

3. You can't ban the media from a locker room... at the same time, it's situations like that, that you never see the media LIVE from inside a locker room (exception is when a team wins a Championship but you're live only during the celebration)

After games they televise, Comcast Sportsnet here has live post-game locker room interviews all the time. No nudity, though. The cameras are usually closely focused on the player being interviewed.

I didn't realize that Comcast does that... maybe it's just a Canadian thing that isn't usually done haha...

But yea, it doesn't take much to tighten the shots.