05.21.08
i am not a media outlet!
The State CIF is in receipt of the media credential application on behalf of
AndyNoise.com for the 2008 CIF State Track and Field Championships, May
30-31, 2008, at Cerritos College.
Unfortunately, your request for credentials has been denied. After spending
some time on your web site, we see no original content, but rather a series
of links to information already existing on the internet.
Your representatives are certainly more than welcome to come and enjoy the
State Meet by purchasing a ticket and sitting in the stands.
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Emmy Zack
Director of Communications
California Interscholastic Federation
510.521.4447
510.521.4449 fax
www.cifstate.org
my reply:
“we see no original content”.
I have taken over 30,000 photos of Kern Athletes in action at meets and that is why I want to get a photo pass for the state meet.
Below is a link to my photos that are also linked from andynoise.com:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andynoise/sets/
When I started my site in the fall of 2006, almost no one covered the Kern area and the results of our meets weren’t even on Dyestatcal for the most part. I started sending them to Dyestat and Dyestat has used some of my photos too.
“but rather a series of links to information already existing on the internet”.
Yes much of my site is that, but i spend hours finding the information and linking it so others dont have too. Plus I doubt anyone will be covering my local athletes except for Ragans and Schwartz.
Also a lot of the Kern information (that is linked from my site) is only on the internet because I went and found it and sent it to others to upload. The folks at Dyestatcal know me well.
Many local athletes and coaches use my site to find out who,what,when, and where. I would hope you would reconsider my application so I can cover my local athletes.
their reply:
The fact that you take photos and post them on flickr does not make the web
site a media outlet.
While I’m sure many in the Kern County area appreciate that you’ve taken the
time to find links that may be of interest to them, that also does not make
the web site a media outlet. And providing the who, what and where for
various track events is, again, a nice service to provide, but not a media
outlet.
When we looked at the link for the 2008 CIF State Meet, we saw only direct
links to pre-existing information.
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Emmy Zack
Director of Communications
State CIF
