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Newspaper sends cartoonist to Foo Fighter concert due to restrictive photography rules

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Alan Gardner July 16, 2015 1 minute 1 comment

You heard it here first. Rock stars often have strict photography rules for journalists attending concerts they’re reporting on. A Quebec newspaper decided to send their cartoonist instead of a photographer.

PetaPixel reports:

The Washington City Paper recently decided to boycott the Foo Fighters? restrictive concert photo contract by buying photos from fans instead. Now a different paper is protesting that same contract in a much different way.

This past weekend, the Quebec newspaper Le Soleil decided to send a cartoon sketch artist to cover a Foo Fighters? concert instead of putting a photographer in the media area.

I post almost in jest, but maybe there’s a market for reporting/live-sketching a concert for a cartoonist.