Comments on: Baseball blogging ban: dumb, dumb, dumb http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/06/12/baseball-blogging-ban-dumb-dumb-dumb/ ...watching the intersection of the Web and media Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Neil Sanderson http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/06/12/baseball-blogging-ban-dumb-dumb-dumb/#comment-4516 Neil Sanderson Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:09:59 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/2007/06/12/baseball-blogging-ban-dumb-dumb-dumb/#comment-4516 I agree that the NCAA ought to permit live reporting of games -- and probably will eventually. But if they don't change their policy, then the newspaper (or another media organization in a similar situation) seems to have only two options: 1. They can play ball (yeah, pun intended) with the league and hold the reports until after the game, or 2. They can defy the league by having their reporter live blog the games while watching them on TV or listening to the radio. That would mean tearing up the press accreditation and probably forgoing not just access to the press box but all other access to the team. No more passes to the dressing rooms, the team bus, or the closed training sessions. No photographers allowed at games. No more tip-offs to reporters. That's a big problem for a newspaper, so option 1 starts to look a lot more palatable, unless the paper is convinced that the teams need its coverage as much as it needs their cooperation. I agree that the NCAA ought to permit live reporting of games — and probably will eventually.

But if they don’t change their policy, then the newspaper (or another media organization in a similar situation) seems to have only two options:

1. They can play ball (yeah, pun intended) with the league and hold the reports until after the game, or

2. They can defy the league by having their reporter live blog the games while watching them on TV or listening to the radio. That would mean tearing up the press accreditation and probably forgoing not just access to the press box but all other access to the team. No more passes to the dressing rooms, the team bus, or the closed training sessions. No photographers allowed at games. No more tip-offs to reporters. That’s a big problem for a newspaper, so option 1 starts to look a lot more palatable, unless the paper is convinced that the teams need its coverage as much as it needs their cooperation.

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