His employer, The Reveille, prohibited him from openly posting on the web under his own name. It's pretty much standard procedure in the media business, that you cannot also play for the competition. The web is competition to the printed media, who have their own sites, too. It's why Guilbeau and Rabalais never post here either, although it is obvious from their articles that they lurk the LSU sites.
It's also common place now for people in the media business to have blogs and personal sites too. Blogs are more competition to print media than message boards. Clair change your name to "my boss is an douche bag" and keep posting
This is the worst decision ever. I don't think to read the Reveille very often but when cgisclair would post about an article I would go check it out. I find message boards to be great places to find links to articles I would probably never see otherwise. It's like free advertising for them. I cannot possibly see how him posting on Tigerforms would decrease readership to the Reveille in anyway. In fact I will probably read less because of it.
Exactly! I hadn't read the Reveille since I graduated until cgisclair started posting his columns here for feedback.
:rofl: :rofl: Exactly. His boss is probably a 65 year old hag who's terrified of "that Interweb thingy." The top journalists all have less formal outlets to assist them in: 1. Developing their style 2. Developing a reader base (THAT THEN READ THEIR EMPLOYERS DAMNED PAPER) 3. Getting new information 4. Testing out new ideas 5. Being human It's going to be less, as far as I'm concerned. It was a bush league paper when I was at LSU, and I had forgotten about it. Then Casey came along and gave them some credibility. Hey, hopefully Sports Illustrated or The Sporting News won't have such similar draconian rules.
The reason given to Clairice for not being allowed to post here had nothing to do with it being 'competition'. Her boss says that.... looking up pm for exact words..... "they say it shows a bias toward LSU"
