Blogger Removed From NCAA Game for Blogging

CNet is reporting that a blogger from the Courier-Journal of Louisville, KY was recently ejected from an NCAA game for live-blogging. "According to the Courier-Journal, staff blogger Brian Bennett was approached by NCAA officials in the fifth inning of a game between the University of Lousville and Oklahoma State, 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."'"

Comments

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

[madsheep]

People actually blog about NCAA baseball? And they threw him out.. I bet that kept a total 0 people from getting the latest from the game.

Re:"In Soviet America"? Please.

[gbulmash]

"Welcome to /. This is where a story about someone sitting in a car outside an internet cafe and stealing the wireless connection gets the headline "Poor innocent Linux user arrested for browsing the web." Or a story about a student posting Nazi slogans from a college computer gets the headline "Student suspended for blogging." Misleading propaganda headlines are becoming so common around here that it's becoming one big exercise in reading between the lines."

Let's not forget other hyperbole. Apple sends a C&D letter to someone they feel is violating their iPod trademark and Slashdot says Apple is suing them. Some whacko threatens to file suit if Microsoft does not meet his demands about Halo 3, and Slashdot says he's suing Microsoft. I'd love to go pluck a hair from RMS's beard and see if the Slashdot headline calls it an attempted scalping.

- Greg

Re:-5 Strawman

[Penguinshit]

posting (near) real-time descriptions of a game are as much broadcasting as a commentator speaking a blow-by-blow into a microphone or a typist providing real-time closed captions for a television broadcast

Feel free to post a citation in support of that. No? Then it is still a 1st Amendment question.

Your opinions and biases don't change that.