Redskins/WP Dysfunction -- Good, Bad or Meh?

[Slobberknocker]

LINK: http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/5231.html

The Dysfunctional Relationship between the Post and the Redskins

By Harry Jaffe

Where's Dan, where's Vinny? They're not there.

After covering the Washington Redskins for two seasons, Howard Bryant has one word for the relationship between the team and the Washington Post: “dysfunctional.”

Says Bryant: “With the exception of Joe Gibbs, it’s difficult to get a straight answer out of anybody in the front office. Dan Snyder is in the locker room, yet he’s never available for comment.”

One on one with Snyder?

“Never,” he says. “They do give interviews, just not to us. All the powwows and summits and lunches we tried to have, from the day-to-day standpoint, they didn’t pay off.”

The Redskins and the Post have been feuding since Snyder reacted angrily to what he saw as negative coverage, and the team yanked hundreds of the Post’s season tickets. Snyder invited Post editors to his mansion for a peace conference, but it only inflamed tensions.

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[akhhorus]

Snyder's a fool for picking this fight in the first place and continuing it with extremely petty attacks on the Post and their writers(often through a certain website). The Skins' people still talk to the Post without any restrictions and Snyder doesn't really have another paper in town to deal with(yes, he loves the Times, but the Times is a joke and will be folding sooner or later). Snyder shouldn't bend to what the Post "wants"(which I'm unclear if they're even demanding anything), but he's also tried to create a fight with them because they wrote a story that Snyder didn't want to get out(that Coles wanted out and agreed to a buyout of his contract). Snyder should also realize that Don Graham(the owner of the Post) could break Snyder over his knee financially--the Post dwarfs the Redskins in revenue and value.

[jaylen]

I think its a foolish fight simply because more Skins fans read the post than anything. The Post doesn't spin Skins articles particularly negative despite any beef so I think its petty. Snyder doesn't do many interviews so I don't think the Post is missing out on anything.

The Post was shameful though during the Norv Turner era, they covered for that pathetic coach of a man for years without so much as broaching the subject of him being a bad coach who lets the inmates run over him. The Turner era coverage was shameful.

Though the Post had no problems during that same time writing bad articles about Wizards coaches and proposing ideas that there needs to be a coaching change.

[greatest2]

It was dumb for snyder to pick a fight with the post, but what is done is done.


personally, i don't mind if snyder doesn't talk to them. The less he says the less he can get in trouble for. And what do we want snyder to say really?, all i see is the possibility of negative for snyder and no real benefit to outweigh the possible cost.

I agree, Gibbs is the team president and is the face of the team. Ask him the questions, lunch's, whatever it may be. Talk to the players, coaches, team president/GM, and thats it. No need for anything else










and on a seperate topic, the post needs some better writers. besides JLC the bunch of them need to get there stick out there :moon2: and cover the skins without prejudice, and report what they see and hear.

[redskin_rich]

It's funny because originally it was the Times that Snyder shared a mutual dislike with. I'm still not sure that is patched over, as Elfin seems to take a lot of shots at the Skins, just like Daly used to skewer Snyder on regular basis.

The Post even did a long, very complimentary piece on Danny back in '02 or '03, in the WP magazine. I'm still not exactly sure where it all went south but I think it was when the Laveranues Coles story broke. And then there appeared to be a mole in the organization but you can't blame the press for doing there jobs.

[shally]

LINK: http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/5231.html

The Dysfunctional Relationship between the Post and the Redskins

By Harry Jaffe

Where's Dan, where's Vinny? They're not there.

After covering the Washington Redskins for two seasons, Howard Bryant has one word for the relationship between the team and the Washington Post: “dysfunctional.”

Says Bryant: “With the exception of Joe Gibbs, it’s difficult to get a straight answer out of anybody in the front office. Dan Snyder is in the locker room, yet he’s never available for comment.”

One on one with Snyder?

“Never,” he says. “They do give interviews, just not to us. All the powwows and summits and lunches we tried to have, from the day-to-day standpoint, they didn’t pay off.”

The Redskins and the Post have been feuding since Snyder reacted angrily to what he saw as negative coverage, and the team yanked hundreds of the Post’s season tickets. Snyder invited Post editors to his mansion for a peace conference, but it only inflamed tensions.

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mehh.. who the heck cares about the post ? there are so many alternative sources for info that the days of bob addie and shirley povich are long long gone

newspapers are the way of the dinosaurs.. rapidly becoming totally irrelevant

[akhhorus]

mehh.. who the heck cares about the post ? there are so many alternative sources for info that the days of bob addie and shirley povich are long long gone

newspapers are the way of the dinosaurs.. rapidly becoming totally irrelevant

Don't bury them quite yet. The daily paper newspaper is dead, but as the major media sources move online(and the Post has been the farthest ahead of any major paper on this), they'll push down and crush the blogs and "alternative" media sources since they'll take the quality of writing and access and make the small guys irrelevant. And when you see conflict, such as ES vs JLC, the major media source will always win.

[GreenspanDan]

i miss the days of wilbon and kornheiser writing their columns every monday or tuesday after games, telling it, well, more or less how it was. good times. it didn't feel like there was any axe to grind. nowadays, between the redskins "unfiltered" sources (HAHAHA) and the post's bitterness ... it's just hard to find good, authoritative analysis.

hell, this site is the closest i can get!

(although JLC's blog is pretty good too)

[redskin_rich]

Newspapers are still great for starting campfires and lighting the coals for my grill.

And JLC of the WashPo is everyones best source on Redskins breaking news, through his blog.

[shally]

Don't bury them quite yet. The daily paper newspaper is dead, but as the major media sources move online(and the Post has been the farthest ahead of any major paper on this), they'll push down and crush the blogs and "alternative" media sources since they'll take the quality of writing and access and make the small guys irrelevant. And when you see conflict, such as ES vs JLC, the major media source will always win.

i disagree... in the older days, the cost of producing a newspaper was so prohibitive that the post and it's ilk had the field to themselves and could crush, as you say, any competition.

these days, collectively, bloggers rule. anyone with a PC and time can produce items that get out to the public instantly.. sure, much of it gets lost in the overwhelming volume that is out there. and as many as they try to stomp on, others will pop up.

as far as quality of writing, you and i may appreciate literacy and the ability to string together coherent sentences, but we are in the minority.
witness the frequent typos and grammatical errors that slip through even in JLC's column.. it hasnt exactly hurt his penetration of the market or credibility. writing is a lost art and the public's appetite for instant factoids
is what drives this

[akhhorus]

i disagree... in the older days, the cost of producing a newspaper was so prohibitive that the post and it's ilk had the field to themselves and could crush, as you say, any competition.

And watch: when the major newspaper get online as their primary outlet, they'll crush the little people easily.

these days, collectively, bloggers rule. anyone with a PC and time can produce items that get out to the public instantly.. sure, much of it gets lost in the overwhelming volume that is out there. and as many as they try to stomp on, others will pop up.

The blogs thing is over hyped. Outside of Drudge, there's no news blog that consistently gets remotely half the traffic that the Post(or NYT or CNN/MSNBC/FOX) gets. And Drudge has a trick with his traffic reporting that makes him look bigger than he is(the page reloads automatically if you're on it for a few minutes and Drudge counts the reload as another hit).

[Keino]

Newspapers are still great for starting campfires and lighting the coals for my grill.

And JLC of the WashPo is everyones best source on Redskins breaking news, through his blog.

Call me nostalgic, but I enjoy getting the morning paper and reading it on the crapper in the morning. It allows me to catch-up on Sh..Stuff in more ways than one. For example, if it weren't Print edition of the paper, I would never know that JD Gibbs ended his relationship with GM and JGR will be using Toyota in 2008 because of the amount of support that Toyota has pledged. ;)

[Keino]

i disagree... in the older days, the cost of producing a newspaper was so prohibitive that the post and it's ilk had the field to themselves and could crush, as you say, any competition.

these days, collectively, bloggers rule. anyone with a PC and time can produce items that get out to the public instantly.. sure, much of it gets lost in the overwhelming volume that is out there. and as many as they try to stomp on, others will pop up.

as far as quality of writing, you and i may appreciate literacy and the ability to string together coherent sentences, but we are in the minority.
witness the frequent typos and grammatical errors that slip through even in JLC's column.. it hasnt exactly hurt his penetration of the market or credibility. writing is a lost art and the public's appetite for instant factoids
is what drives this

JLC's blog may have typos, but I've never read a column that wasn't thoroughly edited. I also think you are dismissing too easily the idea of credibility. The Post has instantly more credibility than Joe Blogger.

[jaylen]

I agree the Post's and other major outlets have credibility in ther reporting. There is alot more opinion now in the Post which I disagree with regarding JLC's blog but he gets the facts right all the time and offers informed speculation. Bloggers at times is a needle in a haystack sorta thing finding quality info.

[Hr fan]

Snyder wants to control all media outlets, not to control news but to gain revenue from the control. He does not understand that if his info base is not accessible interest in his team will die out. Rozelle and Goodall wisely keep the games on free TV. They realize this secures the broadest possible fan base, and this is key to revenues. It is a pity that owners like Snyder will always attempt to kill the golden goose due to extreme myopia.

[RedskinRyan]

Call me nostalgic, but I enjoy getting the morning paper and reading it on the crapper in the morning. It allows me to catch-up on Sh..Stuff in more ways than one. For example, if it weren't Print edition of the paper, I would never know that JD Gibbs ended his relationship with GM and JGR will be using Toyota in 2008 because of the amount of support that Toyota has pledged. ;)

call you nostalgic? got other words for you, buddy ;)

that right there is a prime example of what kind of information you can find on the internet

[Keino]

call you nostalgic? got other words for you, buddy ;)

that right there is a prime example of what kind of information you can find on the internet


Im pretty sure Im not the only one who reads on the crapper.

[Slobberknocker]

Im pretty sure Im not the only one who reads on the crapper.

It's great to leave the world behind you.

[CNYSkinFan]

The funny thing is right now Snyder prefers the times, but when he took over the Redskins he pissed off the Washington Times big time. JKC loved the times and gave them exclusives on everything Redskins. When Snyder took over he fired all of JKC's publicity staff and ordered the new staff to give information to the Post instead because they had a bigger readership.

The Times got pissed and wrote nothing but bad articles about Snyder personally, then when Snyder started feuding with the POst he started giving information to the Times again, but they still hate him too. SO then he started Redskins.com and bought out extremeskins in order to shape his own image.

[akhhorus]

The funny thing is right now Snyder prefers the times, but when he took over the Redskins he pissed off the Washington Times big time. JKC loved the times and gave them exclusives on everything Redskins. When Snyder took over he fired all of JKC's publicity staff and ordered the new staff to give information to the Post instead because they had a bigger readership.

The Times got pissed and wrote nothing but bad articles about Snyder personally, then when Snyder started feuding with the POst he started giving information to the Times again, but they still hate him too. SO then he started Redskins.com and bought out extremeskins in order to shape his own image.

You know its bad when you look to Mr. Burns for Corporate Strategy. Go ahead and make your own Vinnie/Smithers joke lol. I have one that I probably can't post here.

[jtovb2005]

Don't bury them quite yet. The daily paper newspaper is dead, but as the major media sources move online(and the Post has been the farthest ahead of any major paper on this), they'll push down and crush the blogs and "alternative" media sources since they'll take the quality of writing and access and make the small guys irrelevant. And when you see conflict, such as ES vs JLC, the major media source will always win.

I read the paper everyday. Between here and the post are my main sources. I live in Virginia Beach so have to buy the paper at WaWa or 7-11 everyday at extra cost :(

I am a bit older but I really don't like reading so much on the internet. I could be on this thing all night.

It does seem silly to have a grudge, if there is one. I do sometimes think the Post goes out of their way in the other sections of the paper to poke at Danny and the Skins. I don't think that paper needs to go easy but come on the paper starts with the word Washington on the front. Sometimes I wonder if some of the coverage style is because some of these writers are not from here. I am not saying everyone needs to be from the DC area but sorry if you come work for the Washington paper leave your home team bias back at the old job.

I do find most of the Sports page coverage not too bad. I think the magic of winning fixes a bunch of stuff, including the loud mouth's yelling for the other team in their internet seats at FEDEX.

[jtovb2005]

How about when the Skins took all the free tickets they used to give to the Post? Wasn't that written about a little when it happened?

[AGibbsGirl]

I despise the Post...I get all my info from you guys....which is pathetic I know...

[Moe]

It was dumb for snyder to pick a fight with the post, but what is done is done.


personally, i don't mind if snyder doesn't talk to them. The less he says the less he can get in trouble for. And what do we want snyder to say really?, all i see is the possibility of negative for snyder and no real benefit to outweigh the possible cost.

I agree, Gibbs is the team president and is the face of the team. Ask him the questions, lunch's, whatever it may be. Talk to the players, coaches, team president/GM, and thats it. No need for anything else.

Totally agree. It smacks of pettiness on both sides, but Snyder is best served by staying out of the picture. He is an easy target for any number of reasons (prejudiced or otherwise) and the smart move for him is to keep the door for any criticism closed.

[Patrick]

Im pretty sure Im not the only one who reads on the crapper.
Had a TV installed too ...........best of both worlds .........;)

[morty55]

Snyder's a fool for picking this fight in the first place and continuing it with extremely petty attacks on the Post and their writers(often through a certain website). The Skins' people still talk to the Post without any restrictions and Snyder doesn't really have another paper in town to deal with(yes, he loves the Times, but the Times is a joke and will be folding sooner or later). Snyder shouldn't bend to what the Post "wants"(which I'm unclear if they're even demanding anything), but he's also tried to create a fight with them because they wrote a story that Snyder didn't want to get out(that Coles wanted out and agreed to a buyout of his contract). Snyder should also realize that Don Graham(the owner of the Post) could break Snyder over his knee financially--the Post dwarfs the Redskins in revenue and value.

is there anything here that isn't Post hyperbole..aimed at endearing a diminished former icon?

Maybe by considering what the Post allowed to go on ...on their own messageboards..that a lawsuit brought to a crashing end..via a decision by their Ombudsman..

the content they allowed to be posted about anything... unmonitored..to the point of harrassment.. slanderous emasculation.. and threat...

I'd use their failure as a template to define the scope of where opinion ends and restrictions should begin..

[morty55]

of course by definition..the fact that the Post has an Ombudsman...means there is a set-up process for Journalistic and content checks and balances..
that there are constraints and thresholds..and they are not perfect in their own eyes..

[morty55]

Totally agree. It smacks of pettiness on both sides, but Snyder is best served by staying out of the picture. He is an easy target for any number of reasons (prejudiced or otherwise) and the smart move for him is to keep the door for any criticism closed.

fact is ..he has been a target..

The Post chose sides when John Kent Cooke got shut-out..they labeled Daniel ..made a big deal out of his replacing corporate people that worked for the Cookes.. as if opnion plays a role in business..when nobody should dare tell them how to run their paper

They chimed into and led the national media's harping.. scathing attacks on him..the dismay when Tony Kornheiser actually bellied up to him a few years ago..as if he sold out to the devil was the most humorous behavior I can submit regarding the dysfunction the press has helped create..and deserves equal billing..

All the while the personal attacks continued..the redemption of Jerry Jones at Daniel's expense...because a villian works in journalisms small little world..and Jones actually is what... they love to chide Snyder as being..

It got so bad the Post ran the same story about the Trees along the river a few months apart..
the second time came after he took away the block of tickets..the Post felt they were above everyone else..in owning

Totally clueless writers like Nunyo Demasio helped push this agenda..actually I wish Jason had the job the last several years..because things.. I feel ..would not be so bad..

there is only one team a year that can be champion..holding Daniel to a higher standard than anyone else is dead wrong..his way of operating isn't anymore the public's domain than the sex-life of every poster here..

besides..it is Joe Gibbs that is Coach and team President..the hate Danno babblers..have so litttle to offer ..

just like journalism these days...wait for the press release and write the copy in a monolithic style..

some people here have 15,000 posts and nothing at all but snipes..and the rest questions about what does this have to do with anything?

[akhhorus]

is there anything here that isn't Post hyperbole..aimed at endearing a diminished former icon?

Maybe by considering what the Post allowed to go on ...on their own messageboards..that a lawsuit brought to a crashing end..via a decision by their Ombudsman..

the content they allowed to be posted about anything... unmonitored..to the point of harrassment.. slanderous emasculation.. and threat...

I'd use their failure as a template to define the scope of where opinion ends and restrictions should begin..

Huh? So because a bunch of Jerks made stupid comments on their MBs/Blogs, their content is falling off?

of course by definition..the fact that the Post has an Ombudsman...means there is a set-up process for Journalistic and content checks and balances..
that there are constraints and thresholds..and they are not perfect in their own eyes..

Every newspaper has an Ombudsman, and they've been in newspapers for decades. What's your point here?

[Skins7ny]

I think its a foolish fight simply because more Skins fans read the post than anything. The Post doesn't spin Skins articles particularly negative despite any beef so I think its petty. Snyder doesn't do many interviews so I don't think the Post is missing out on anything.

The Post was shameful though during the Norv Turner era, they covered for that pathetic coach of a man for years without so much as broaching the subject of him being a bad coach who lets the inmates run over him. The Turner era coverage was shameful.

Though the Post had no problems during that same time writing bad articles about Wizards coaches and proposing ideas that there needs to be a coaching change.
I think the Post's coverage of the Skins was fawning and incredibly deferential until a couple of years ago. There were many articles where the Post just parroted the Skins' party line. They never did any investigative or analytical pieces and never disclosed any of the internal goings-on that they must have been privy to. This ended in earnest last year, but before then, you had the feeling that the Post was not interested in getting on the Skins' bad side. The gloves came off with JLC's 3-parter last year.

There is no reason that beat reporters should withhold what they know about the team from the readers they serve. Unless it involves the personal life of someone off the field, and even that is arguable depending on the circumstances.

It was dumb for snyder to pick a fight with the post, but what is done is done.


personally, i don't mind if snyder doesn't talk to them. The less he says the less he can get in trouble for. And what do we want snyder to say really?, all i see is the possibility of negative for snyder and no real benefit to outweigh the possible cost.

I agree, Gibbs is the team president and is the face of the team. Ask him the questions, lunch's, whatever it may be. Talk to the players, coaches, team president/GM, and thats it. No need for anything else

and on a seperate topic, the post needs some better writers. besides JLC the bunch of them need to get there stick out there :moon2: and cover the skins without prejudice, and report what they see and hear.

I am GLAD he doesn't talk to them, or to anyone else for the most part. I don't want to hear from him. I don't want him to do anything other than sign the checks and set a tone of accountability and excellence for the team. That is what made JKC such a great owner and enabled Bobby, Charley and Joe to win 3 Super Bowls.

Snyder wants to control all media outlets, not to control news but to gain revenue from the control. He does not understand that if his info base is not accessible interest in his team will die out. Rozelle and Goodall wisely keep the games on free TV. They realize this secures the broadest possible fan base, and this is key to revenues. It is a pity that owners like Snyder will always attempt to kill the golden goose due to extreme myopia.
You raise good points, the league in general has to be careful about the hubris of owners like Snyder seeking to control everything about the team to the exclusion of all others. This is not the Mars Candy Corporation, in which the Mars family can be secretive and closely held. This is a fan-based business, and it relies on media outlets like the Post, and the TV stations to feed our interest. If the only sources of information are Snyder-controlled, the credibility and eventual interest and participation in the team will be diminished somewhat, just like consolidation is hurting the radio industry.

I read the paper everyday. Between here and the post are my main sources. I live in Virginia Beach so have to buy the paper at WaWa or 7-11 everyday at extra cost :(

I am a bit older but I really don't like reading so much on the internet. I could be on this thing all night.

It does seem silly to have a grudge, if there is one. I do sometimes think the Post goes out of their way in the other sections of the paper to poke at Danny and the Skins. I don't think that paper needs to go easy but come on the paper starts with the word Washington on the front. Sometimes I wonder if some of the coverage style is because some of these writers are not from here. I am not saying everyone needs to be from the DC area but sorry if you come work for the Washington paper leave your home team bias back at the old job.

I do find most of the Sports page coverage not too bad. I think the magic of winning fixes a bunch of stuff, including the loud mouth's yelling for the other team in their internet seats at FEDEX.

Shawn Springs just called. He agrees with you.

[James F. Quinn]

Im pretty sure Im not the only one who reads on the crapper.
It is better than crapping on the reader. lol

[James F. Quinn]

I read the paper everyday. Between here and the post are my main sources. I live in Virginia Beach so have to buy the paper at WaWa or 7-11 everyday at extra cost :(

I am a bit older but I really don't like reading so much on the internet. I could be on this thing all night.

It does seem silly to have a grudge, if there is one. I do sometimes think the Post goes out of their way in the other sections of the paper to poke at Danny and the Skins. I don't think that paper needs to go easy but come on the paper starts with the word Washington on the front. Sometimes I wonder if some of the coverage style is because some of these writers are not from here. I am not saying everyone needs to be from the DC area but sorry if you come work for the Washington paper leave your home team bias back at the old job.

I do find most of the Sports page coverage not too bad. I think the magic of winning fixes a bunch of stuff, including the loud mouth's yelling for the other team in their internet seats at FEDEX.

Two things. One is that Dan Snyder is not popular, and so the WaPo is simply playing to their readership by sniping at him.
Tye other is that the media tend toward being negative, because it stirs up controvesy and consumer interest.

Write a column on how well things are going and you'll make your readers yawn and move on. Write that Joe Gibbs and Al Saunders are locked in an epic battle for Jason Campbell's soul, and you'll get their attention and sell more ads.

[Say that Brandon Lloyd worships Cthulhu and you'll simply get general nods of probable agreement.]

[James F. Quinn]

Had a TV installed too ...........best of both worlds .........;)


Put a phone in and you'll never have to come out, except to eat. LOL

[CNYSkinFan]

Put a phone in and you'll never have to come out, except to eat. LOL
mini fridge and microwave?

what goes in must come out

[Moe]

You raise good points, the league in general has to be careful about the hubris of owners like Snyder seeking to control everything about the team to the exclusion of all others. This is not the Mars Candy Corporation, in which the Mars family can be secretive and closely held. This is a fan-based business, and it relies on media outlets like the Post, and the TV stations to feed our interest. If the only sources of information are Snyder-controlled, the credibility and eventual interest and participation in the team will be diminished somewhat, just like consolidation is hurting the radio industry.

The NFL itself is extending its own iron clad grip on their product. I read/heard recently that local television is limited to 45 seconds of (I believe) video footage per broadcast. Obviously Snyder is delving into radio for the most part, but the League might not have any issue with him having control as that still keeps it all 'in house' so to speak.

[morty55]

Huh? So because a bunch of Jerks made stupid comments on their MBs/Blogs, their content is falling off?



Every newspaper has an Ombudsman, and they've been in newspapers for decades. What's your point here?


not because people made stupid comments..

it is because the tenor and lack of civility in everything is perfectly detailed in how the Post operates..what they find acceptable..

content has nothing to do with it

talented people..like some of the contributors here..should serve as examples on how to generate quality content..so much of what you guys submit is top-notch..
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Stating the obvious that all papers have an omnibudsman..of course they do..but the entire scope of the omnibudsman is to keep content in check.that there is an inherent need for checks and balances

.when the reporters begin to submit opinion as journalism..it becomes
op-ed..maybe it is the Post resigning themselves to the circumstances..personally I think cable has created a monster where columists aspire to become pundits..and being inflammatory sets them apart..
at least they still have Jason


..the Post is chippy..become benign..and like all media today.. stuck in a vindictive world of entitlement..
their world is changing and it is their fault..they act as if changes are made in spite of them..instead
of confronting and analyzing the costs /benefits of a Sally Jenkins mentality..

[akhhorus]

not because people made stupid comments..

it is because the tenor and lack of civility in everything is perfectly detailed in how the Post operates..what they find acceptable..

What? What does the Post online message boards have to do with the writers of it?

content has nothing to do with it

No, content has everything to do with it.

talented people..like some of the contributors here..should serve as examples on how to generate quality content..so much of what you guys submit is top-notch..

Huh? We're not writing daily columns, and we're offering opinion pieces, not factual reporting. Apples and bowling balls.

Stating the obvious that all papers have an omnibudsman..of course they do..but the entire scope of the omnibudsman is to keep content in check.

.when the reporters begin to submit opinion as journalism..it becomes
op-ed..maybe it is the Post resigning themselves to the circumstances..
at least they still have Jason

So, the Post(or any media) can't criticize the decisions of the anyone?

..the Post is chippy..become benign..stuck in a world of entitlement..
their world is changing and iit is their fault..they act as if changes are made in spite of them..instead of the Sally Jenkins mentality..

You're acting like Hailredskins or redskins.com is going to replace or even supplement the Post as the primary coverage of the Redskins. Thats never going to happen. I hate to be the one who breaks this to you, but the blogsphere isn't going to replace the traditional media.