Mar 28
NBA slam-dunks Mark Cuban’s ban on blogging
The NBA has told Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban that he must lift his ban on bloggers in his team’s locker room. Cuban says he’ll go along, but in doing so continues to demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of the role of blogging and bloggers in today’s diverse media.
read more | digg story
1 Comment so far
Leave a comment
Well, I’m not sure I can agree with you on this one, Andrew. You acknowledge that they cannot let 6,000 people into the locker room. Therefore, unless they want to conduct a lottery, they must discriminate (not a dirty word) on the basis of press credentials. That is, if G. Gordon Liddy wanted in, he would get in ahead of me; the G-Man carries more weight than I do in terms of press credentials, though it wasn’t all that many years ago that, in a previous career, I could probably have bumped even him on certain limited assignments (I wouldn’t have; the two of us together likely would have tossed Wolf Blitzer down the airstairs of the damned Tupolev and his bags into Engine Intake Number 3—Samsonite a la Cuisinart). Blogging is the antithesis of the credentialed press. Certain advantages attach thereto. But we cannot have our cake and eat it, too.