Mark Cuban: Bloggers are not allowed in my lockerroom

It sounds like rather than try to take things on a case-by-case basis and come up with rules with millions of permutations and calculations and interpretations, Cuban decided to create one blanket rule with no wiggle room.

Makes sense to me.

 

I wanted to clear something up after having it pointed out to me (privately) by someone I like and respect. You can blog about the Mavs from the locker room, but your primary purpose can't be blogging. I think I muddled that in the intro post. So the Mavs beat guy for the DMN can blog, as long as he's also writing for the paper.

But no rogue bloggers, I guess.

 

I don't have too much trouble with this, to be honest. A team isn't going to have the time or wherewithal to expend the energy needed to determine which BLOGS! are an effort to provide legitimate citizen journalism and which ones are by blowhards who want a media credential so they can brag about locker room access to their buddies.

My shop has restrictions when we cover the Big Division I-A men's hoops program that's a 15-minute car drive away from our newsroom. Namely, we can't have a photog at the Conference games. We can only get photo coverage for the non-Conference games.

It's something I've learned to deal with by running file art from the games where we do get to have a photog. Or playing up the photos from the women's hoops team where we *don't* have to face that restriction.

 

Looks like this issue came to a head over a blogger from the Dallas Morning News, according to Cuban's own blog. According to Cuban, he told the DMN their blogger (Tim MacMahon) wasn't allowed in the locker room anymore. They didn't like it. Cuban said no more bloggers, period.

Cuban claims in his blog that allowing the DMN's fifth reporter (MacMahon) into the locker room gives the paper unequal access compared to others and that there's just not enough room in the locker room cuz then he'll have to give EVERY blog a pass instead of deciding on a case-by-case basis if they're deserving. This is hard to buy even using Cuban's bank account.

DMN is implying that Cuban didn't like something MacMahon wrote; Cuban writes that he didn't read the guy's stuff anyway. MacMahon posted earlier today that the ban was coincidentally decided upon right after Jason Kidd was benched for the last half-minute of a loss to the Spurs on Feb. 29 and MacMahon wrote a semi-critical entry of Avery Johnson.

Most likely, this blogger policy is disguising a punishment Cuban is doling out to MacMahon.

 

We should keep in mind, when discussing this policy, that Cuban is, for the most part, insane.

 

But he does make a mean Blizzard!

 

i don't let fucking bloggers in my house.

 

Did Cuban know Will Leitch was a blogger when he let him interview him?

 

when bloggers put on pants, they almost look normal.

 

almost

 

I thought bloggers didn't have to put on pants.

 

it is a perk of working out of your mother's basement.