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- Here is the story that caused UK Athletics to revoke Kernel basketball reporter Aaron Smith's media access to one-on-one player interviews scheduled for Tuesday.
UK basketball adds two walk-ons : The Kentucky Kernel
UK basketball is adding two walk-ons for the upcoming season. Brian Long and Sam Malone each confirmed via phone Monday morning they would be on the team. This followed Anthony Davis' tweets Sunday night that Malone and Long would be playing for UK this season.- The Kernel wrote a story after talking to DeWayne Peevy, associate athletic director for media relations; a First Amendment lawyer, a Student Press Law Center attorney advocate; a sports public relations expert; and the Kernel reporter in question and the Kernel editor-in-chief.
UK Athletics revokes Kernel’s access to basketball interviews : The Kentucky Kernel
A decision involving UK Athletics and a Kernel editor brought the First Amendment into question Monday. Kernel basketball writer Aaron Smith's media access to a set of men's basketball team interviews was revoked Monday after he was said to have violated UK Athletics' unwritten policy on interviewing student athletes.- College Media Matters responds.
Kentucky Restricts Student Newspaper Access to Basketball Team in Response to Report About Walk-OnsThe fall semester is barely a blip on the academic radar and already the student press censorship has begun. The location: Lexington, Ky. The situation: University of Kentucky athletics officials, angry over a story published in The Kentucky Kernel, have barred the campus newspaper from one-on-one interviews today with the school's basketball team.- Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated responds.
- The Lexington Herald-Leader / Kentucky.com's story.
UK basketball locks out student newspaper | University of Kentucky Sports News | Lexington Herald-LeaderUpdated: 6:18 AM ET Tue, Aug. 30, 2011 The head of the University of Kentucky's basketball media relations department banned the university's student newspaper from Tuesday's media interviews with the team. DeWayne Peevy, UK's associate athletics director for media relations, rescinded an invitation to the Kernel's basketball writer for the interviews after learning that he had contacted two students rumored to be walk-ons this fall on the basketball team.- Response from Gary Parrish of CBS.
- Others respond, including the Student Press Law Center, John Clay of the Herald-Leader, Peevy and fans.
- Peevy told the Kernel Monday evening that there was no written policy about contacting Media Relations first, but reporters knew that was the preferred method. Later, Peevy tweeted a photo of a written policy.
