Scurvy, Who's Who & the Art of Photography

The cure for scurvy--a disease that in western history typically affected sailors--was lost for a period of time between the time when the British Navy began issuing rations of citrus in the 18th century and the arctic expeditions of the early 20th century. By virtue of an incomplete understanding, irregular scientific practice and a few incidents that inspired wild medical conjecture a disease nearly eradicated among the English prior to the American Revolution was killing upper class English children in the Victorian Age. (To read more, look here.) Knowledge once acquired can be lost along with history unrecorded--which is why I want to recommend you check out the Who's Who? over at the Big Bullet. If you see yourself or anyone you know I encourage you to get involved. Knowledge of paintball's history and personalities isn't a matter of life and death but if we don't preserve it, it will be lost with no one to blame but ourselves. Besides, the photos currently posted are a real rogues gallery of freaks, weirdos and malcontents likely to make the most hapless dweeb swell with new-found confidence. Preserving paintball's history is a project bigger than a Who's Who but it's a great start. Check it out. Offer suggestions. Contribute. Get involved.

There's a thread in the PSP WC forum regarding an incident (of sorts) in which the thread starter chides the league for its parochial behavior with respect to some anonymous highly credentialed fellow photographer. Normally this would elicit a yawn--at best--but I'm bored--nothing much else is going on--and criticizing the PSP (or the NPPL) is kinda my turf and while I'm willing to share there are standards to follow.
I'm going to post the majority of the original post sentence by sentence [uncorrected] and suggest you read the post in its entirety at PBN if you give a rodent's posterior. At that point I will entertain myself at this fellow's expense (and enlighten the knee jerk crowd while I'm at it.)

"One thing that I think you guys should highly consider not doing again is denying the President of the National Press Photographers Association and Professional NFL photographer,(who has the contacts with people at Fox sports) of getting a Pro fields pass when he has shot the past events with no problem."
Here is the NPPA. The other two relevant points are A) nobody was denied anything and B) the anonymous photographer has shot PSP events in the past. So he should known the process in advance.

"He was working on a story for his friend who is the Fox Radio Announcer at the Fox HQ."
And this is meaningful how? A paintball story? A PSP story? To appear when and in what market?

"He tried contacting you guys weeks before the event but no reply, when he arrived at WC he was told he couldn't have a Pro Media pass, and If he wanted one he'd have to BUY one!"
Is the suggestion here that since he's a bigtime credentialed photographer that he--and his pal (the post writer)--should receive special treatment that other photographers don't get? Or that it's somehow in the league's interest to give this guy the VIP treatment? Based on what? From everything stated so far all we know is this guy has shown up before, had his fun, but where is any evidence it has contributed in any way, shape or form to the betterment of paintball or the PSP?

"PSP please think over this again if you want to try to get the sport of paintball to grow."
Yeah PSP, grant special favors to my friend, and me, that other photographers don't get.

"This is not good for our sport, when a rep for a highly respected press photographer association and representative comes looking to help out but you reject it."
What help exactly was on offer?

"He finally got a pro media pass on Sunday, when our friend Kirill from RL had him added to the team roster under their team media."
Interesting given that NPPA has a fairly strict code of ethics and #8 reads: Do not accept gifts, favors, or compensation from those who might seek to influence coverage.

"I will end this rant now, when we finally got the passes all was well! The event was great and we had a blast!"
[Emphasis added] Looks to me like the real issue was the expectation of special treatment whether monetary or procedural. Since when does membership in a professional association confer unique privileges? And why aren't the other photographers who paid for their privileges up in arms over this abuse? And what, if anything, has the post writer or his credentialed pal ever done for paintball or the PSP?

What a joke. A tiny little passive aggressive joke.