Canadian news outlets were choked about The Tragically Hip’s decision to ban news photographers from the band’s final show on Saturday, and guitarist Rob Baker has entered the debate on Twitter to defend the band’s position and offer an explanation: there wasn’t enough space to accommodate the dozens of photographers who wanted access to the historic concert.
“Does anyone feel that there has been a lack of coverage of this? That the public hasn’t been served?” Baker tweeted yesterday, pointing out that photographers had full access to all other shows on the tour.
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“I agree that it is an interesting debate but the bottom line in this case was the logistics of space, safety and fairness,” he added.
Baker began by tweeting a correction to the photo credit of the widely publicized photo of PM Justin Trudeau hugging Hip front man Gord Downie, which led to the following Twitter exchange:
