The Globes press conference: only NBC cameras allowed
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Reducing the Golden Globe Awards to a news conference may help the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. avoid problems with the Writers Guild of America, but the arrangement does not please rival television news organizations, which are irked that they will be barred from covering the event. (Print reporters apparently will be allowed in, but NBC is the only television network that will be permitted to cover it.)
“If it is being presented as a news conference, with other news media allowed, it seems like we should be allowed to cover,” said one rival network executive who did not want to be named. “As a news division, I don’t think we would consider it newsworthy enough to carry live, but certainly should be allowed to gather our own tape.’
However, it’s unclear what recourse NBC’s rival networks have if the HFPA refuses to let them in, aside from downplaying the news about the Golden Globe winners on their own broadcasts.
-- Matea Gold