Newspaper blogger ejected from NCAA baseball game

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/more/06/11/blogger.ejected.ap/index.html

Times are changing fast. I think this is a move by the NCAA to take control of how student athlete games are reported. I see future coverage eliminating reporters access as much as possible. With the Internet schools can publish team news faster and with more control over the message. They can also bring in huge traffic numbers for University sponsored websites and blogs which bring in large advertising dollars. This could force beat writers to become even more tabloid in nature to attract readers. I see this action by the NCAA as a line in the sand that will end up in court.

I'm curious to know how the rest of you view this action.

 

I think there's a difference in providing "News" for readers, in a newspaper, the morning after and live coverage in a blog; however, not sure I find it harmful as long as it's not affecting ticket sales- and I'd think that most fans who follow it on a blog would have purchased a ticket and attended if at all possible so they aren't losing $$$ from those, but I'm just guessing here.

It's our world of technology and will be interesting to see- My gut feeling is that the NCAA is within their rights to govern the press coverage since it's a paid admission.........kind of like events that don't allow cameras.

People forget that First Amendment rights are relative and not absolute.

 

I can't believe I'm about to type this...

I can actually understand what the NCAA may be thinking here. Considering the CWS (its broadcast rights) are paid for by a television network they very well may think of this type of reporting and put it in the same category as say CBS broadcasting a Fox game without paying for the rights to it. Make sense?

Real murky situation here, I'll agree. You have to consider the point you can grab live stats in a lot of places during a game...makes me wonder how "in depth" his blogs were. Then one thinks about how many "game threads" there are on message forums, etc., and the fact those games are *real time* as well.

 

Along the same lines...I've wondered how long it'll be before youtube gets into some kind of trouble considering the amount of game footage that can be found uploaded to their site.

 

The key is live broadcast. I believe they have the rights to control that issue how they see fit. Just like schools have the rights to do it.

Internet broadcast should be no different than tv or radio. I know it sounds silly to stop a blogger, but where do you draw the line? Typing it as it happens is the same as saying it on radio or seeing it on tv.

 

http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/bennett/blog.html

here is the guys blog. IMO it's pretty harmless and no different than someone posting about a live game on a message board.

What's next they ban cell phone from sporting events because I might call someone and tell them what going on.

 

These are all good posts from you guys. I'm trying to push the envelope in my thinking here. I think something big is about to happen with regards to immediate access to sportiing events using live Interactive communication between fans and the actual game. Only so many people can get in a stadium. Televsion continues to evolve with how they cover sporting venues.
Internet is going to bring all this to another level we can't even imagine right now. I'm just trying to figure out what that might be.

 

Censorship. I'm wondering if they would have kicked out joe blow fan for blogging live during a game?

 

I don't think it's about censorship. They have every right to control who gets press credentials and who can provide live audio and video of the event. The internet presents new challenges that we never dealt with in the past.

It's no different at LSU. Would LSU allow you to take a camera into Tiger Stadium and provide live video stream over the internet? Doesn't LSU charge fans for that service?

 

do you not understand what he was doing... you keep comparing this to audio/video feeds and it was not even close to that.

Essentially he was do what every other newspaper reporter in that pressbox was , except he was doing it live.

It's no different than the game threads we have on here.