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Baseball blogging ban: dumb, dumb, dumb

Started by mathewi · 11 months ago

My reaction to the recent news that a newspaper blogger was ejected from a baseball game for live-blogging the event can be summed up in one word: moronic. Yes, I know that the league is well within its rights to throw the reporter out, since it is part of the agreement that newspapers (and ... Continue reading »

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  • I've live blogged sporting events I've been at, and if I was asked to leave I simply wouldn't come back. I'm not interested in participating in events I can't talk about when and how I want to.

    Of course, I'm doing this as a fan rather than as a paid reporter when it comes to sporting events. In the case of true reporters, I don't see what's lost. More coverage, and more interesting coverage builds team loyalty.
  • The NCAA are unbelievably backwards in many respects, and this is one of them. This is one rule that needs to be abolished- once that's done, I have about a thousand other suggestions...

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