Skins vs. The Post

[firstdown]

The problem the Skins (Gibbs & Danny) have is that they are probing into our dailey running of a team. They probably made the Coles situation worse and embarrassed Laver and the Skins in that situation. The Skins are like most of us they do not want air their dirty laundry in public. The Post was doing what they were supposed to do as journalist in uncovering stories. Now the Skins want to be that source for information and may be more inclined to post the storie first. I think that is a smart move to be proactive than to be reactive to a situation that may arise in the future kind of not making it news when the post runs the story.

[SkinsRock]

If something is news, report it, whether it is negative or positive. The problem is that the Post has gotten into a habit of creating negative stories out of speculation (Gibbs retiring early), or reporting stories that both sides don't want made public just yet (the Coles fiasco...both the Skins and Coles's agent were not happy about that getting out when it did). An opinion column is one thing, but to try to make news, or "get the scoop" before all the info is confirmed is just wrong. I side with the Redskins on this and love all the new video and other enhancements on Redskins.com.
At least we all now know why Gibbs has been doing so many press conferences, and why they hired Larry Michael.