ESPN Holly Rowe shoves reporter to get interview with brady Hoke

Next week Holly will be shoving Les Miles out of the way to
speak with Nick Saban.

 

Right. And if they protect all videos as a matter of policy, I'm with them. (The NFL is especially vigilant about this, and NBC of course is vigilant because of Hulu.) My question was whether this is really ESPN's corporate policy, or if they are generally OK with their videos staying up there but used "rights" as an excuse this time because they felt the video made them look bad.

 

Bullshit.
You say something first. You don't tuck your shoulder and go.

 

I've covered three BCS national championship games and in each case got all the quotes I needed from players on both teams on the field within five minutes of the final gun. With my deadlines I didn't give a shit about a 10-minute cooling off and neither did most of the other print hacks. And until they had the stage set up for the trophy presentation, no one stopped us.

 

I can't believe this has gone four pages.

It's not an issue at all. Not even a shove. No real physical contact. I don't see what the big deal is, and I'm sure 98 percent of people will agree.

 

98 percent of people are blind if they didn't see a push or shove in the clip.

 

ESPN has many lawyers, and good lawyers. It'd be foolish for ESPN NOT to be vigilant about these copyright violations. This stuff is easy for them to police.

 

Looks to me like Holly shoved her and apologized while she was doing it. No harm, no foul.

 

It's hardly the first example of this. I can't remember the exact game but Michele Tafoya once walked up to the star who was in the middle of talking to someone else, grabbed him, spun him around and started the interview. It was explained at the time that national TV ALWAYS gets first crack and that she had the right to break in on any other interview. I'm not sure why it is so vital to go live right then as opposed to waiting 15 seconds since they will throw it back to the booth for 5 minutes of the announcers chattering after that.

 

YouTube has always bent quickly when asked to take a video down. This has nothing to do with some nebulous idea of the "ESTABLISHMENT!!!!!!" It has to do with YouTube not wanting to get sued.

This.

Media Relations people should know better than anyone else who has the rights to get the first interview.