NO photos from Britneys Toronto circus shows – Press tells Spears camp to fuck off
March 24, 2009 by Richard Budman ·
The Britney Spears Circus hit Toronto for two (almost) sold-out shows at the Air Canada Centre last week. The Britney show rolled into Toronto on Wednesday and headed straight to the ACC for the first show – making it impossible for the small gaggle of photographers following her to get a clean shot.
Now, you might have expected a front cover Britney photo in the Toronto dailies come Thursday. But on that day all the papers ran very little coverage of Spears – and NO photos from the Toronto show.
Was the Spears story not big news in Toronto? Had newspapers cut back staff so severely there was nobody left to cover the show? No. And No.
HoundsTV spoke to sources at The Toronto Sun who said they certainly had plans to make Britney a cover story come Thursday – but “ridiculous demands” by the Spears camp towards the mainstream media on what could be done with the photos had every Canadian news outlet and agency saying NO THANKS. So Spears concert reviews ran in The Toronto Sun and Toronto Star print editions with no photos and the papers used old file shots for their Britney reviews on their websites.
What demands by the Spears camp could have pissed the papers off so much as to not send photographers to such a visual feast? After all, the editors know their papers readers don’t want to just read about Britney – they want to SEE Britney.
Its usually when the “journalistic integrity” of the papers gets a little threatened when the editors cry foul. Perhaps the Spears camp were demanding news photographer shots MUST run on the front page the next day. Quite possibly – the pictures captured by the photographers are said to be “For one-time use only. No re-use.” – which basically means the news editors can review the show and run a photo the next day. But the next time Britney does something dumb and is in the news (yeah… like what are the chances of that???) – the papers couldn’t run another shot from the concert to accompany that story.
Whatever the demands exactly were. The news editors didn’t like it and with the struggles of the paparazzi on the other side – it was suddenly very tough to get a good shot of one of the world’s most photographed woman.
Of course, come the next night in Montreal when some club paid the right price – all of a sudden Britney was in a mood to be snapped.
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