Snyder Interview

When Dan first took over the Skins I read a five page artical talking about how Snyder made his fortunes. After reading the artical I could only think of how successful he would be with the team. After 5 years of loosing I still believe he will accomplish his goals and our franchise will rise to the top. He is only in his late 30's and has gone through his growing pains. I feel he has learned from his mistakes and can only improve in the ownership and decision making of this franchise. He is truly a Redskins fan and only has the best intentions for the team whether right or wrong.

Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. The reason we read these guys is because they TRY to give us the scoop before it happens. They do the same thing we do only they get paid for it.


Daseal, are you the Devil?

Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. The reason we read these guys is because they TRY to give us the scoop before it happens. They do the same thing we do only they get paid for it.

Its an issue of being respectful and responsible. Nunyo seems more fit to write for The Globe then the WP.

I am the first person to druel over breaking news and rumors but man, he just seems to throw stuff out with no regard and info.

Plus this dude is writing for freaking Washington Post, not the Milwaukee Times, and this is the Redskins, not the Seahawks or Browns. And another thing, the guys sounds like an idiot when he talks. . .

Extremeskins has been keeping track of some of Nunyo's inaccuracies, and some of them are quite disturbing for someone who is supposed to be the beat reporter for a major newspaper.
Got a link? I'd love to read that.

http://www.extremeskins.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96374

This is a great conversation about Nunyo's reporting. Thanks for alerting me to it Matty!

What a buffoon Nunyo is.

Personally I prefer an accurate story rather than a "scoop" full of untruths.

Daseal = Poo Poo Pants

Just kiddin Daseal. But what good is getting a scoop if it's not accurate? I'd rather not read anything than read stuff that's wrong. I appreciate the effort in trying to bring info to the fans, but you don't build much journalistic integrity if you're often wrong.

And sure, we try to get the scoop just like these reporters do. But since the reporters get paid and we don't, I think they should have to be accurate.

An interesting interview in many ways. It seems to me that Snyder takes several not so veiled jabs at the "media" - aka The Post. I had always understood that - from the quality of the stories, the lack of sources other than players, and a news blurb somewhere (ESPN ??) that the Skins only dealt with the Post - the Washington Times did not have the media access that the Post did. I cannot remember the last time there was any report from Snyder or anyone from the FO in the Times - it always seemed like they got their news second hand. I wonder if their is some other dynamic working here - Post not playing Snyder's lap dog and the Snyder going to the Times to tell "his side".

All in all - an interesting interview. It did seem to ignore the accusations that Snyder undercut some of his coaches by dealing directly with players he liked and Snyder sort of glossed over the Schottenheimer firing. Other than that, however, very interesting and informative.


I cannot remember many stories that the Times scoops the Post. The most glaring indictment of the Times came the night before my Mom died and HOF Coach Gibbs was hired. I knew at 1:00 a.m. (Hospital i-net connection) and the Post had the story. The Times was still reporting R. Rhodes and J. Fassel!

I read both every a.m., and without a doubt, the Times is a day behind!

This article is seemingly a first. It might not indicate a total flip-flop by LDS and the Redskins FO toward the Post however. If it was, then why have all of the Times articles still been a day late for the past two weeks?

Let me see here. The Washington Times gets to do an interview with Danny Boy Snyder on an exclusive basis and writes a positive story. Everyone here takes that to mean that the Washington Times is the beacon of truth, justice and the American Way while the Post is part of an Evil Empire.

Folks, if Woodward and Bernstien had rolled over and gone paws-up for the Nixon Administration after the Watergate break-in just as the Times did with Danny Boy, Nixon would have finished out his presidency. If you think that article is hard-hitting investigative journalism, I don't suggest you enrol as a journalism major at Columbia! Let me say only that the interviewer/author probably needed a breath mint after that session...

I don't think Nunyo Demasio is particularly good as a beat reporter; I find his writing style dull; he's not nearly as good as Mark Maske was. But the scuttlebut is that the new sports editor at the Post thought that Maske was "getting a bit too cozy" with the Redskins and so he made the switch. Now Maske does general NFL beat reporting and not just the Skins. I have no idea if that actually was the case, but that is what is out there on the wire. So Demasio's "marching orders" are to remain at arm's length from the team and to be an objective reporter. That tends to motivate him to have some negative stuff in his stories - wouldn't want the boss to think he was getting too chummy with "the story" causing Demasio to be reassigned to covering DC United.

And by the way, Demasio was a lot closer to "right" than "wrong" about the Coles story. Until he broke it, everyone here on The Warpath was 100% convinced that Coles' foot would be better and he would be the Skins' #1 WR and catch 90-100 balls for the Skins next year. You may not like the outcome of Demasio's reporting there because it guaranteed that the end of the Coles/Redskins relatinship would be acrimonious and not something where compromise was likely to happen, but you can't say he didn't do a reporter's job in getting to the bottom of the story.

I'd be willing to wager that Joe Crisp would have gone with that story had he had the story back in early February. :food-smil Of course Joe Crisp would have written better prose, but nonetheless, he would have run the story and run it hard!

SC, you need to go and read the thread at extremeskins. Nunyo was flat out wrong on the Coles situation. He was the one who initially reported that the Redskins were PLANNING ON releasing Coles, but the team vehemently denied that, and they ended up trading him. No matter how you cut it, Nunyo was flat out wrong on that one.

I don't think releasing him was ever an option in their minds. They knew they weren't going to let him go for nothing.

I don't think this Dan Snyder interview is a matter of how accurate the story is. It's just interesting to note how sour the relationship has gotten between the team and the WP. You just know Snyder is going to the Times out of spite for the Post.