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Cuban ruffles with blogger ban

USA TODAY,  March, 2008  by Michael Hiestand

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OK, ethicists: Are all bloggers created equal?

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, an avid blogger himself, thinks so -- and he's using that egalitarian argument to ban bloggers from the team's locker room. After recently banning a Dallas Morning News blogger, Cuban wrote on his blogmaverick.com: "I am of the opinion that a blogger for one of the local newspapers is no better or worse than the blogger from the local high school. ... I want to treat them all the same. Unfortunately, there isn't enough room to allow any and all bloggers in the locker room."

Cuban also raises this hypothetical: "If I were to ...