Blogging police are at it again
The NCAA, that is.
According to Chris Korman of the Indiana Student Daily, Early in the second half of the game, reporters from The Herald-Times and the Indiana Daily Student were asked to stop posting commentary on a joint live blog they were hosting with two other outlets.
Steve Shutt, an assistant athletic director at Wake Forest, cited an ACC rule permitting only four blog posts per half when making the request, which both publications complied with. The live blog continued to be operated by contributors from the H-T, IDS, HoosierNation.com and Inside the Hall who were not credentialed to cover the event.
After the game, Shutt said that the ACC rule on blogging was probably not in writing anywhere but followed common practice.
Common practice? Where is that common practice?
It's not about practice. We talking about the NCAA and the almighty dollar.
As I wrote back in September: I can go to a game as a spectator, sit in the stands, and blog about it from my Blackberry (if I had one) as many times as I like. But if I'm in the press box someone is going to stand over my shoulder and count? Makes no sense.
Thanks to Steve for the tip.
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Um, if it's not written down anywhere, why the heck should anyone obey the rule? And is anyone really NOT going to watch the game if they have TV because that blog is just so insightful it's really like being there? Sports reporting confuses me.
On what I'm sure is a completely unrelated note, did you know that the Atlantic Coast Conference is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit and that it's constituent members are either nonprofit educational institutions or state-run public universities, all of which have some sort of responsibility to the public good and, in the case of the schools, some commitment to intellectual diversity, freedom of speech, etc...
And those sorts of critters usually leave some sort of paper trail that could be looked at that might show that, say, in the case of the ACC program revenue was in the nine-figures before adding on the decimal point.
You know, if someone wanted to follow some whimsy.
Posted on December 6, 2008 10:06 AM