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January 26, 2007
More On Blogger Access To The NHL
Craig Custance, the new beat writer for the Atlanta Thrashers over at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, kicked off a debate about blogger access inside the NHL a couple of days back. There's not a whole lot of new territory being explored, but it's still worth checking out. My old friend Ben Wright, now working for the Thrashers inside their online operation passed along this note: Interesting timing. We're having a blogger night tomorrow night [That's Firday -- EMc]. A dozen or so bloggers will be coming to the game and watching from the press box and then going to the post-game press conference. It'll all be supervised, and nobody has credentials, but we're hoping it will get more people blogging. That group is going to include Jennifer Bowman, who I met when the Thrashers visited D.C. a couple of weeks back. So in a way, this debate is academic. The bloggers are already inside the wire. The question now is what happens next. One disturbing piece of news: Our old pal Eklund actually participated in an event in conjunction with the Professional Hockey Writers Association (a group with no online presence) in order to present "the view of the bloggers." A note to hockey writers around the country: Eklund doesn't represent anyone except himself. And while there are plenty of folks who blog anonymously for a whole host of reasons, Eklund is the only one who continually abuses the cloak of anonymity in order to deceive.
Eric
06:48 AM
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