[Dean's World] Ron Coleman: Steal this game

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Posted by Ron Coleman:
Steal this game
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1181584067.shtml


   [1]KnoxNews, via [2]Instapundit:

     This is one of the most ignorant moves by officials that I've seen
     in a while. It will be quite entertaining to watch the Kentucky
     blogosphere on this one, and to watch the officials go down in
     flames. Geez. This is a wild one. If you see updates or other
     posts, please put them in my comments. This is an issue I'd like to
     dog. (And this means I've officially moved on from Fred and
     Brittney.)Courier-Journal sports reporter Brian Bennett had his
     media pass revoked and was ordered to leave the press box during a
     college baseball game Sunday because of what the NCAA said was a
     violation of its policies prohibiting live Internet updates from
     its championship events. "It's clearly a First Amendment issue,"
     says C-J executive editor Bennie Ivory. "This is part of the
     evolution of how we present the news to our readers." ...
     What next? Are they going to confiscate cell phones?

   Maybe if you use them on their property. What happened to private
   property rights? As I wrote in the comments, I don't see why there's a
   first amendment issue. There is no right to press credentials. They
   can't stop a sportwriter from live-blogging an event he's watching on
   tv or listening to on the radio, but who says the NCAA has to let him
   do it from the press box?

   I didn't say it was a smart policy. It's a dumb one. But it's not an
   unconstitutional one, far as I know.

   It might not even be so dumb -- and live-blogging even a broadcast may
   also not be so legal. [3]Here's why.

References

   1. http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2007/06/reporter_booted.shtml
   2. http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2007/06/reporter_booted.shtml
   3. http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/?p=1022#more-1022