On fighting with your audience (again)

So a sports journalist at the Courier-Journal in the US was ejected from the stadium and had his credentials revoked because he was liveblogging a college baseball game (Greenslade). Apparently "it was a violation of the NCAA's policies to transmit live internet updates from its championship events". Revoking credentials might work on journalists, in a one-at-a-time, if their lawyers don't fancy a fight this week, sort of way. But what exactly is the NCAA's plan when members of the public - i.e. their audience - inevitably liveblog college baseball games? This has all the hallmarks of a move by people who think they can draw a nice clear line between professional writers and people who pay to just turn up and watch the game. Welcome to the new media world, NCAA, and good luck treating your audience as your enemy.

(There was some discussion of this on last night's Pods&Blogs that I pointed to earlier, incidentally.)