Blogger Kicked Out For Blogging

WTF?

A blogger from the Courier-Journal of Louisville Kentucky was kicked out of a college baseball playoff game for live blogging.

NCAA officials approached Courier-Journal staff blogger Brian Bennett during the 5th inning of a game between the University of Louisville and Oklahoma State and told that blogging “from an NCAA championship event ‘is against NCAA policies (and) we’re revoking the (press) credential and need to ask you to leave the stadium.’”

The editor of the Courier-Journal, Bennie Ivory, says that live-blogging is part of how they get the news out. They blogged during the Orange Bowl and during the NCAA basketball tournament. He says this is an issue of First Amendment rights.

1. Is it an issue of 1st Amendment rights - which protect against the government…

   Or is it an issue of property rights - the right of the NCAA to control distribution of content they produce?

   You could argue that liveblogging the game unfairly competes with whoever has paid for the broadcast rights to the game.

   The guy wasn’t being prevented from covering it - he was prevented from broadcasting it live.

   While I think there’s plenty of room to argue the merits of the NCAA decision and it’s implementation - I don’t think there is any emanation from the penumbra of the 1st Amendment here…

   But I’m not a lawyer, just a self-published poseur pundit.

   Posted by John of Argghhh! on June 12, 2007 at 1557 hrs




2. John!  Long time, no see!

   I don’t think the 1st Amendment applies here.  I do think the NCAA was within their rights to control access to their event.  I just think it was a stupid decision on their part.

   Posted by Owen on June 12, 2007 at 1602 hrs




3. That puts us in… perfect agreement, then.

   Great minds… yadda yadda yadda…

   As for your opener… backatcha.

   Posted by John of Argghhh! on June 12, 2007 at 1622 hrs




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