{"id":335,"date":"2010-10-19T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=335"},"modified":"2010-10-19T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:40:00","slug":"james-madison-would-say-let-the-players-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"James Madison would say, &#8216;Let the players tweet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TL3X6fnDKNI\/AAAAAAAAAYQ\/L0g7rW0nc6U\/s1600\/James+Madison.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">James Madison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TL3X6fnDKNI\/AAAAAAAAAYQ\/L0g7rW0nc6U\/s1600\/James+Madison.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><\/a>Should the North Carolina football program be allowed to ban tweeting by its players? The team made that decision recently, which went almost without comment in the local media, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/index.php\/article\/2010\/10\/trouble_with_twitter\">The Daily Tar Heel has raised an interesting question about that decision.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DTH, in an editorial, denounced that move on first amendment grounds, arguing that the players have a right to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Student athletes are under more media scrutiny and play a larger role in  the University\u2019s PR strategy, but they are still citizens who have the  same first amendment rights as any other student,&#8221; The Daily Tar Heel wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, that&#8217;s a great point, and one the University, and media, should have recognized sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Madison Should the North Carolina football program be allowed to ban tweeting by its players? The team made that decision recently, which went almost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}