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The Washington Times partners with The Redskins

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Jake_Taylor, Jul 28, 2014.

  1. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    What's Boswell got to say about all this?
     
  2. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    What does the Times have to do with journalism?
     
  3. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    I think they just hired somebody to make it three full timers, plus Marc and two columnists who, I believe, are technically freelancers. Which one do you consider the terrible columnist?

    This certainly hangs a cloud over all their coverage, but to be fair, ESPN 980 is owned by the Redskins and they aren't absolute sunshine pumpers. This probably won't be the paper to go to for coverage of the nickname controversy though.
     
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  4. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    As journalists go, the three full-time writers and the SE fall along the spectrum from good to great.
     
  5. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    It's too bad the front portion of the paper is a sad charade.
     
  6. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    I didn't realize the staff was that small. I know most of the people who have left in the past year have all wound up in pretty great places, and I'm not just talking about the former SE.
     
  7. Dr. Howard

    Dr. Howard Member

    Jack Kent Cooke also liked the Times and hated the Post. At one time, the GM (I think it was Charley Casserly) was under orders not to talk to the Post. And I seem to remember Norv Turner getting pimped out as a 'columnist' for a Times section. The Redskins used to have a deal with the Examiner to do a weekend wraparound but did not use Examiner staff for media purposes.
     
  8. Fran Curci

    Fran Curci Well-Known Member

    from the late 1990s: Los Angeles Times Publisher Kathryn M. Downing on Wednesday apologized for entering into an agreement to share the profit from a special issue of the Times Magazine with Staples Center, the new downtown sports arena that was the magazine's sole subject.

    Downing said the lapse in judgment--and her failure to disclose it to readers and the paper's journalists--stemmed from her own "fundamental misunderstanding" of editorial principles in the newspaper industry.
     
  9. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    About a decade ago, most NFL coaches wrote a weekly column for a paper during the season. They were paid a small fortune by newspaper standards (six figures or close to it) to do it and they were all usually written by someone on the PR or Marketing staff and approved by the coach. The coach I used to cover used to joke, "What did I write this week? I hope it was good."

    I don't know if any still do it since most papers simply can't afford it anymore.
     
  10. Pancamo

    Pancamo Active Member

    I'm guessing he thinks Loverro is terrible.
     
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  11. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/13/washington-times-calls-michael-morse-dumb-says-the-nats-are-better-without-him/
     
  12. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Ugh. That guy is just one gianormous ball of suck.
     
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