Reporter’s credentials

As a sports broadcaster it’s sometimes very difficult to get into sporting events to do the reports. All broadcasters or press personal are required to have appropriate credentials in order to legally report the event. The promoters of such events at their own discretions give out these credentials. We recently saw this at an MMA event in Nevada. The MMA recently bought Strike Force a competing organization in the same field. Since this happened the press has released very negative feelings about the situation.

When the MMA had the matchup in Nevada, the president Dana White, refused to issue press credentials to those spoke bad about the decision to buy Strike Force earlier in the year. As you can imagine this created a huge outrage from broadcasters that were denied. They started saying that they were being discriminated against. He responded publicly by saying that it was his discretion on who to grant the credential to. He felt that if they were going to speak negatively about the sport than they shouldn’t be there.

In my personal opinion I think that was the right call by Mr. White, I see it this way. If you cause harm to me in anyway, then you do not deserve to be part of any of my events. A lot of people are saying that they are only hurting themselves. I believe that they are protecting themselves from any negative energy around them. Now, I know that the reporters are just doing their jobs, but there a certain line there. There’s a line between you just trying to do your job and you harming others.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/jeff_wagenheim/04/13/credentials/index.html

http://www.fightopinion.com/2012/12/26/ufc-dana-white-sherdog-credentials/

http://sportsaddict-kconner10.blogspot.com/2011/06/dana-white-has-refused-to-issue-press.html