Digital Inspiration picked up on a sports story that got my attention. A blogger was thrown out of a NCAA baseball game because he was posting live updates on a website (admittedly a newspaper website). The stadium officials threw the blogger out because because reporting of a ‘game in progress’ violated the broadcasting rights that were sold exclusively to ESPN and CBS.
It’s a shame that the individual thrown out was a journalist, as I wonder if officials could have thrown out an individual posting on their own personal site? I’m guessing that the stadium would have to say that ‘blogging’ wasn’t allowed at the entrance or on tickets, in the same way that you are not allowed to take photos at some concerts now.
It just goes to show how far blogging has come on as a new form of journalism.
