Freedom of information has been questioned in the twenty-second edition of the Ironman Lanzarote Canarias Triathlon, and the Ironman brand has not allowed live reporting of the event that took place this Saturday. ...
Freedom of information has been questioned in the twenty-second edition of the Ironman Lanzarote Canarias Triathlon, and the Ironman brand has not allowed live reporting of the event that took place this Saturday. LanzaroteDeportiva.com has been one of those media outlets that have been harmed by the bossy decision not to allow live reporting of the Ironman Lanzarote. The only explanation they have given is that Ironman owns the rights to live information and that all live information must be consulted through the official website.
LanzaroteDeportiva.com, in its eagerness to offer the most sports information and do so in real time, uses social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to offer this information to its hundreds of followers. From early in the morning, the LanzaroteDeportiva.com team has been working hard to ensure that fans don't miss any details. This monitoring was curtailed hours later when we were prohibited from providing live information about Ironman Lanzarote via Twitter.
The disorganization began early in the morning when the media had to fight to access the press area and graphically capture the start of the race. An area that does not meet the necessary space conditions, especially considering the number of accredited people. As an alternative, they have placed the graphic colleagues in a place where they have not been able to capture the start of the race. In addition, incomprehensibly, the media from outside Lanzarote have had a better situation, and the locals have been relegated to a second place.
LanzaroteDeportiva.com has made a significant effort throughout this week, with a special dedicated to Ironman Lanzarote. We do this work with pleasure, with the sole purpose of placing Ironman Lanzarote in the place it deserves informationally. Many people ask us what the reason for this decision is, but we ourselves do not know.
If we want to report live on what is happening at Ironman Lanzarote, we have been "invited" to leave the press area and threatened with expulsion from the press area from which we are trying to provide information about Ironman Lanzarote.
And the most surprising thing is that they tell us that we can provide online information if we collaborate with the official media, although in any case without receiving any financial compensation for it. In other words, work for free so that the Ironman brand saves a few euros and doesn't pay the people who are doing that work at this moment.
We want to make it clear that our complaints in this case are not directed towards Kenneth Gasque or Isabelle Jansens, who are responsible for showing their faces at all times and taking the heat in this type of case. The decision to veto the media comes from higher up, specifically from those responsible for the Ironman brand, who still seem to be in the last century. They only look after their economic interests, therefore, they do not want anyone to compete with them and that all the visits that a test of these characteristics can generate go directly to the official website of the event.
