Lady Gaga's tour isn't allowing web/television coverage, Verizon Center says.

Lady Gaga will be at Verizon Center tonight. You know who won't be at Verizon tonight? Any media outlet that doesn't produce a print product. According to the venue, the singer's tour isn't approving any websites or online media outlets for tickets or photo passes, and isn't allowing television coverage either. 

If this were a Paul McCartney show, the Web reporter ban might make sense, but Gaga? The web made Gaga. And while print reporters for a long time dismissed her as a flash in the pan, blogs fawned over her, and social networking sites helped her fanbase not only grow to astronomical numbers but form a tight-knit community of people all over the world, united in their love of Gaga.

And even when online media skewered her, it helped push her to new levels of notoriety. In fact, many of the watershed moments in Gaga's career would not have been possible without the online media. For instance:

1) The video for "Telephone." As we all know, cable music channels don't play music videos anymore, and even if they did, a nine-minute clip can only be rotated but so heavily. So, the outrageous nine-minute video for Gaga's Beyonce duet caught fire almost entirely based on YouTube views — 33,149,343 and counting, to be exact.

2) The penis video. People who'd never even heard of Gaga found themselves Googling "Lady Gaga penis" to investigate rumors of her having male genitalia.

3) Greyson Michael Chance's cover of "Papparazzi": You know you're a big star when videos of kids singing your songs go viral (See: Britney Spears).

4) Gaga hit 11 million Facebook fans in July and surpassed Britney Spears as the most-followed person on Twitter last month. Just a few hours ago, her meat-covered Vogue Hommes Japan cover was posted to her Facebook page, and already 40,000 people have "liked" it. Hmmm, since her camp values paper so much, maybe they should start an old-school snail-mail fan club and have all of those online followers people send self addressed stamped envelopes to some P.O. Box and wait three to six weeks for their autographed photos of Gaga to be delivered via mail carrier?

So, which members of the D.C.-based media were granted access to the Verizon Center for tonight's spectacle?

The GW Hatchet, student newspaper of George Washington University, confirms that it requested two press passes and a photo pass, and received all of the aforementioned credentials. Update, 4:23 PM: Lauren French, editor-in-chief of the Hatchet just called to amend her previous statement — she says the Hatchet actually requested only one ticket and a photo pass, but were given two tickets and a photo pass.

Brightest Young Things confirms that it requested and received a photo pass, and that the photographer attending will do a short write-up as well. (Hey, isn't BYT a website? Maybe there was an exception made for really, really cool websites?)

I didn't ask the Washington Post, only because, c'mon — they're totally going.

So, who ain't going?

Jonathan Fischer at the Washington City Paper says he didn't request tickets or a photo pass for himself or any of his writers and, to his knowledge, the paper isn't covering.

DCist says that the web publication requested credentials and "no dice."

Also in the "no dice" column, TBD. So, if Gaga flashes peen tonight, we'll be reading it on Twitter along with the rest of you.