Let’s see how this one plays out.
The IHSA ... and photography from state finals
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It shows how heavy handed and egomaniacal IHSA administrators can be. Give them and inch and they take a mile. Please tell me how our High Schools or our children benefit from the IHSA policy.
We should all remember that these are the same people that want to implement and oversee a drug testing program. Be scared, very scared.
We should all remember that these are the same people that want to implement and oversee a drug testing program. Be scared, very scared.
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They should take a cold shower...if only they worked in City Hall with Richie and the gang!
Hey! Who flushed? My shower is cold! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unlfho4Nmfo&feature=user
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They should take a cold shower...if only they worked in City Hall with Richie and the gang!
Hey! Who flushed? My shower is cold! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unlfho4Nmfo&feature=user
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I think the IHSA has a point. While I don't like the fact they chose an out of state company, the dispute seem s to be over who can profit from photographs. If the IHSA has more money, they should have more resources to improve IHSA events. That is how it will benefit our kids.
I hope that the geniuses at the IHSA are feeling very smug that my local Pioneer Press had no sports photos this week. Someone please tell me, who is going to profit from some pictures of state meets in swimming, wrestling and the rest? People don't run out to buy their papers because of HS photos. I just don't get it. Who does it benefit by not letting a weekly like Pioneer Press, who use their own photographers publish a few pictures?
All the Pioneer Press has to do is pledge not to sell the pictures. If they want the pictures, they can print all they want. My local Pioneer Press has swimming and basketball and wrestling pictures.
I never agreed to allow the IHSA a monopoly on my sons athletics. It's the media that spends the money to send photog's and videog's out to those events, not the IHSA. The IHSA isn't doing a lick of work, just claiming rights and looking for a handout.
There's a reason that HS sports are so poorly covered, and it's because it's expensive. I am all about more coverage, and if that means that the media outlets need to sell some photos, then let's let 'em.
The shortsighted view of this is what the IHSA is doing. I'm not quite sure what improvement our IHSA events need that they should alientate the only source for exposure they have.
There's a reason that HS sports are so poorly covered, and it's because it's expensive. I am all about more coverage, and if that means that the media outlets need to sell some photos, then let's let 'em.
The shortsighted view of this is what the IHSA is doing. I'm not quite sure what improvement our IHSA events need that they should alientate the only source for exposure they have.