Might Have That Backwards

From the recent Editor and Publisher story on AP and Gannett taking on the Southeastern Conference over its new credential policy. It quotes Mark Silverman of The Tennessean:

They fail to recognize that we are not just a newspaper. We use a variety of mediums and I believe we are going to be able to make a prior restraint argument.

Actually, the policy is quite the opposite. It recognizes that anyone can exist in all three of the basic rights bearing formats -- audio, video and data. And the policy is platform agnostic -- it's media.

The difference is the newspapers are moving into a realm almost exclusively held by television media in the past. The television station can stream its newscast, that may contain game footage. Newspapers, I suspect, could create a similar, non-archiving newscast, but seem to base their claim right now on that as the "difference" in how the policy is discriminating against their traditional form of media.

It's that archive of video living on the internet that is the issue. The story remains, well, developing.