How's this different?

[TexasVet]

How's an ESPN writer posting a photo of his ticket to a Muhammed Ali memorial service different than the reporter who posted a photo of his media credential to the Final Four? Other than the fact it's ESPN and they think they're above everything.

 

[Cosmo]

Because it's the same ticket given out to anyone in the general public?

 

[SFIND]

Are there any regulations on the back of the ticket that prohibit posting pictures of it online?

 

[mediaguy]

The NCAA is in charge of its credentials. If they don't want photos that make counterfeiting easier, that's their right.

Do you want a uniform policy where all tickets/credentials to all events in all countries have the same rules? A little oversimplified, no?

 

[TexasVet]

Are there any regulations on the back of the ticket that prohibit posting pictures of it online?

I don't know. I don't have a ticket. But if I did, I wouldn't be flashing it on the web just like I wouldn't a press pass. It's the professionalism that goes back to it.

 

[Vombatus]

ESPN is entitled to employ assclowns like the rest of the world.

 

[Ace]

How's an ESPN writer posting a photo of his ticket to a Muhammed Ali memorial service different than the reporter who posted a photo of his media credential to the Final Four? Other than the fact it's ESPN and they think they're above everything.

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Well, now you know where he's going to be sitting, so you can take it up with him.

But it's not a credential, it's an old-fashioned printed ticket. I think the NCAA particularly is concerned with credentials because if you are a bad guy and can duplicate one of those, you can get to a lot of place the public can't.

So a media credential is worth a lot to someone out for a good time or someone with bad intentions.

 

[Double Down]

It would be a real shame of Arash didn't get to cover future Muhammed Ali funerals.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Calling it a golden ticket is fairly classless, but it's not to hard to see the difference between this and the NCAA thing.

 

[TyWebb]

Golden ticket? Is it being held in a chocolate factory? Maybe don't seem excited about going to someone's funeral.

Edit: Jake beat me to it.

 

[cjericho]

Yeah golden ticket, just like Willie Wonka. Is this jerkoff Arash an on-air guy?

edit: missed the 'senior writer'

 

[Double Down]

Is it being held in a chocolate factory?

No, just the KFC/Yum! Center, which is much classier than Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory.

 

[Cosmo]

Still waiting for someone to name their building the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell Arena.

 

[playthrough]

Such a clown move.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Who brags about going to a funeral with a ticket? I guess he was feeling insecure and needed some social media "likes" today. What a douchebag.

 

[JohnHammond]

Do we really need a thread on why this is different? SMH on how some people are employed in the biz.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Then again, who says it's his? Maybe he saw someone with the ticket and asked if he could take a pic of it ...

 

[JR119]

Maybe if he gets there early enough, he can get a good number of autographs from the famous people on hand

 

[pseudo]

How's an ESPN writer posting a photo of his ticket to a Muhammed Ali memorial service different than the reporter who posted a photo of his media credential to the Final Four? Other than the fact it's ESPN and they think they're above everything.

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Maybe it's not "his" ticket, and he covered the distribution as part of his job? At least, that's the impression I got from the other 20 or so photos he tweeted yesterday morning.

 

[studthug12]

I have seen press people post their credentials with tweet saying something like 23rd year covering xxxxxx team. Or if their last name takes up the whole pass or something. Still not sure how I feel. Don't see why people do it maybe they feel that is just the way social media is but I also don't think someone is classless for doing it.