Mike Wise won't say "Redskins"?

But what if he's doing a story about the training camp menu and they're serving Redskin potatos? What's he going to do then? The team is serving the team potatos?

 

It's a basic detail, the team name. I don't see why it's even a question that he should use it. And his readers call them the Redskins, not "the team" or "the franchise." But he's a big-name columnist, so I guess we give him a pass on putting himself above the readers.

 

he's a columnist. he can have an opinion and follow through with it

good for him for having the balls to do it

 

Royko hated Daley, but at least used his name. This is no noble stand, but the equivalent of putting the hands over the ears and going "nah-nah-nah-nah" constantly.

A real stand would be not writing about the Redskins, and writing an op-ed piece saying why he won't

 

Wise would do everyone a favor if he stuck with basketball and didn't write about the Redskins. The man knows his hoops, but his football columns are generally blah -- just not interesting at all.

 

First of all, he's right, the team shouldn't be called the Redskins. Secondly, as long as it doesn't negatively affect his prose, which it hasn't, as far as I can tell from my occasional reading of the Post, there's nothing wrong with this form of protest from a columnist. Good for Wise for taking a stand.

 

How is this taking a stand against anything?

 

No analogy here....he's refusing to write 'Redskins' because he finds the term offensive, not because he hates the team.

 

I'm planning to go all season without using the words "Mike Wise" in one of my columns.

 

I think the Oregonian has that policy.

 

I agree with Wise.

I worked with an excellent columnist once who refused to call the stadium by its proper name. "I'm not going to use his name until I can call it (John Doe) MEMORIAL Stadium," he said. And he didn't.

 

Didn't Paul Daugherty do something like that a few years ago when the Bengals were awful? I think he asked the readers if he should keep covering them or just stay home on Sundays -- and they told him to stay home.