Media attending Kentucky basketball practices are not allowed to tweet or write about what goes on there, but apparently the ban doesn’t extend to Jon Rothstein of CBSSports.net, who has been tweeting out his observations today.
More tweets after the jump.
I love the updates. Keep them coming…What about Teague and Lamb?
It doesn’t make any sense to allow local folks to send out updates. The national piece adds credibility to the national brand that Cal is building here – not to mention the potential impact on recruiting. With all do respect, no one that is of importance to the basketball program is a part of local media. This thing has become bigger than that. The fact that the local media continues to bitch about Cal granting access to the national folks only proves those points further.
FYI: It is “due” respect.
Typical “local media” response. Well played, though.
You are welcome. Believe me, I understand about the importance of the national media, etc. But do you expect us to not complain when we are told we can’t do something as far as coverage, and we go along with that, and then someone else comes in and is allowed to do the exact same thing?
What an arrogant policy! UK needs to rethink the way they are treating the local media. If it weren’t for John Clay’s bogs during games we wouldn’t get coverage ofthe many games.
*blogs!
Thanks, Pam. I’m liveblogging tonight from the “Villains” game, by the way.
Strange that when a Ky Kernal reporter did something that the local media wasn’t allowed to do, and UK punished him for it, the local media started a fire storm. Now UK doesn’t do anything about a media member breaking the rules and the local media gets upset again. Damned if you do? Damned if you don’t?
Actually, I have been told that Rothstein has been asked to cease tweeting from practice.
Well, UK can’t be any more partial to the local media than the local media is to them. How is that fair? If a story broke about a scandal at UK and UK ask the local media not to carry it, would they? Of course. UK has to do what is best for the program. It’s the same thing as people railing against Tipton, just in reverse.
So in other words UK should only give access to media outlets that give them positive press?
No, they don’t get positive press from the national media either, with few exceptions. They are, in my estimation, drawing their biggest fanbase (within the Bluegrass), towards bigger media outlets for the purpose of extending the exposure of the team beyond Kentucky.
My point is that the local media shouldn’t expect to be given preferred treatment. The local media can’t do what the national media can, in this instance. I don’t see it as a snub, but a strategic public relations maneuver.
Maybe the local media shouldn’t have treated the KY basketball program the way they have and they would not have received the treatment they are getting. Like the old saying, You will receive what you hand out and now the local media is getting what it handed out. I don’t live in my home state at the present but the way the LCJ and LHL treat the KY basketball program is a shame. There writers should be banned from all KY games. Let them go cover their (expletive) buddy down the road in Looserville.
Classy.