Caro Blatter, ti scrivo

Ieri parlavamo dell'articolo su blogging e Olimpiadi invernali scritto da Lele Dainesi e - magia internettiana - scopriamo che ieri stesso la WAN ha scritto a Mr. Blatter su un registro molto simile:

We are writing to express our deep regret and dismay about FIFA’s unilateral decision to withdraw from discussions on the restrictions that your organization has placed on media coverage of the 2006 World Cup.
Your ’final’ position on these restrictions, which your representatives have informed us is no longer open to any negotiation, remains completely unacceptable to the world media community.
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We would like to reiterate our firm belief that your restrictions on our journalistic coverage of the 2006 World Cup not only deprive our readers and clients of access to important information on a public event, but constitute both an interference in editorial freedom and independence and a clear breach of the right to freedom of information as protected by numerous international conventions. You have made it clear that FIFA rejects both these ideas and that, to express it bluntly, considers that ’business is business’.

Beyond this, we are truly saddened and shocked that in the name of maximising the commercial exploitation of these events, FIFA should effectively turn its back on the news media which give life, on a daily basis, to football in all its different manifestations all over the world and have done so for decades.

Qui trovate il testo completo della lettera firmata da Timothy Balding (CEO di WAN) e Pierre Louette (CEO Agence France-Presse).