Olympic Athletes Banned From Blogging
According to CNN.com, the International Olympic Committee has told athletes, coaches and Olympics personnel that they cannot publish first hand accounts of their experiences at the games. This is being done to keep the money that is still flowing into the games via lucrative broadcast contracts (NBC for the US at least) high. I mean really, who wants to read about what happened via nbc.com when the actual participant could be writing the story. Now of course you’re thinking, why would the athlete listen, they have the right to write about their experiences - well, we agree, but, “The Olympic guidelines threaten to yank credentials from athletes who are in violation as well as to impose other sanctions or take legal action for any monetary damages.”
Read all about it here, via a corporate news site.
