{"id":20893,"date":"2017-04-08T23:21:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T23:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20893"},"modified":"2017-04-08T23:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T23:21:51","slug":"masters-exerts-prior-restraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20893","title":{"rendered":"Masters exerts &#8216;prior restraint&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pga_masters_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20894\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pga_masters_01-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pga_masters_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pga_masters_01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pga_masters_01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/pga_masters_01.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The third round of the Masters Tournament is about to end and I want to comment on something that has stuck in my craw for the past several years.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports has been broadcasting this professional golf &#8220;major&#8221; for as long as I can remember. Some years back, CBS hired a smart aleck announcer named Gary McCord to broadcast golf on the network.<\/p>\n<p>McCord played on the PGA tour. He didn&#8217;t win any tournaments. But he fancies himself as a comedian. I don&#8217;t find him funny.<\/p>\n<p>Neither do the snotty souls who belong to Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, where they play the Masters every year.<\/p>\n<p>What did these ultra-rich guys do some years back? They ordered CBS to pull McCord off its broadcast team for the Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Why did this stick in my craw? It kind of smacks of a form of &#8220;prior restraint,&#8221; with an exclusive,\u00a0private country club dictating to a major media outlet how it can do its job.<\/p>\n<p>This brings to mind a question I wish I would have asked the corporate owner of the Amarillo Globe-News, where I worked for nearly 18 years until Aug. 31, 2012. William Morris III is chairman of Morris Communications, which owns the G-N. It is based in Augusta, Ga. Morris is a member of Augusta National, an outfit filled with members who are &#8220;invited&#8221; to join; one doesn&#8217;t <em>apply<\/em> for membership, mind you. The blue-noses at the country club have to <em>ask<\/em> you to join.<\/p>\n<p>As near as I can tell, the predominant qualifier for membership has something to do with the size of one&#8217;s bank account.<\/p>\n<p>The question I wish I would have asked Billy Morris? Why do you people at Augusta National take yourselves so damn seriously?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third round of the Masters Tournament is about to end and I want to comment on something that has stuck in my craw for the past several years. CBS Sports has been broadcasting this professional golf &#8220;major&#8221; for as long as I can remember. Some years back, CBS hired a smart aleck announcer named &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masters exerts &#8216;prior restraint&#8217;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[179,2952,3133,3584],"class_list":["post-20893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-agn-media","tag-masters-tournament","tag-morris-communications","tag-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20895,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions\/20895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}