Mark Cuban, an American billionaire entrepreneur and proud owner of NBA franchise Dallas Mavericks, is now the center of attention and hate remarks in the blogosphere for his controversial policy of banning bloggers from the team’s locker room. Here’s the actual rule:
The Dallas Mavericks will not allow ANY writer into the locker room areas pre-game and post-game whose primary purpose is to blog no matter what affiliation. They may still represent their respective publication at games but will not be granted locker room access.
Furthermore, if a blog writer is coming to cover a game, the publication must inform the Mavericks PR staff they are sending a blogger. In order to enforce this policy, we must know this information.
We have gone this route because we did not want to give preferential treatment to any blogger, whether they are an individual or from a large media outlet. We just do not have enough room in the locker room, nor enough media passes to fairly accommodate everyone.
This move once again revives the eternal battle between journalists and bloggers. Though Cuban’s official excuse is the lack of space in the locker room and his disgust for unequal access, some speculate there’s more to it. In fact, Cuban is also called a hypocrite for he’s notorious for using blogs to air his opinion about NBA and its referees.
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Originally posted on March 12, 2008 @ 4:12 am