The Washington Times partners with The Redskins

What's Boswell got to say about all this?

 

What does the Times have to do with journalism?

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I'm guessing he thinks Loverro is terrible.

 

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

 

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