PFT: LaCanfora to NFLN

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I was pretty involved with them during the final Norv years, the Marty year and the first Spurrier year so I don't exactly know what it was like with JKC. But as I understand it, and from what I've been told, this low tolerance approach had something to do with the Redskins wanting to get more presence on the national stage as cable and Internet was starting to emerge and local sports (what I was working on) was starting to fade away. So whereas under previous regimes were the local guys where the first to get the scoop on many rumors, that was becoming less and less the case. So when we would get information off the record, (we being the local media) in our zeal to get some scoop, we'd often report it. Which is absolutely the wrong thing to do. Off the record is off the record. Ultimately, a balance was struck but at the beginning I know it was pretty tense.

Gotcha. So it's a combination of a bit of poor journalism ethics by some local folks and some thin skin from the, um, Skins.

Am I understanding you correctly that you guys (the local media I mean) felt you were being intentionally bypassed by your sources so they could give the first dibs on leads/stories to the national guys (presumably to gain more favor on the national media stage)?