Is a real-time description of a sporting event (usually held in a publicly-financed factility, I might add) news, or entertainment? Who can report on the game's events? Major League Baseball thinks they control the right to describe a game in real-time.

According to the CEO of MLB Advanced Media,

"We don't think of broadcasting of the score every half-inning as an exhibition of the game. But if you're describing what happens every time the pitcher moves his arm, that is an exhibition of the game. Anything more granular than every half-inning is something we think might be a problem."

Perhaps next summer a few bloggers with time on their hands can post pitch-by-pitch accounts of the game they're watching on TV.