The Washington Post backhands Extremeskins.com

[-Om-]

For those who might be interested, this thread contains my Letter to the Editor pursuant to Mr. Wise's first column where he used this cheap stunt, as well as some comments from the poster who was quoted:

http://extremeskins.com/forums/showt...ghlight=editor

[saskin]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

There were probably similar assanine posts here as well last year.

It's a shame that so many 'fans' gave up so quickly on Gibbs.

Whats also a shame is some of them probably had the "Gibbs is Back" or "In Gibbs We Trust" T-shirts and signs....

[That Guy]

good letter in response om.

[CHUBAKAH]

The war has only just started. Sad....

[Luxorreb]

If Mike Wise can make these kinds of mistakes and get paid for it by the Washington Post no less, maybe I should apply. To quote a fansite is cheap and to not read the date of the post is even worse than bush league journalism. I know we've got alot of diehard fans here who know our facts, but is it too much to ask for a writer for the Washington Post to have a little more football street cred or at the very least a journalistic, fact checking approach? What has this world come too? The end of print media, coming soon!!!

[BrudLee]

Originally Posted by -Om-

For those who might be interested, this thread contains my Letter to the Editor pursuant to Mr. Wise's first column where he used this cheap stunt, as well as some comments from the poster who was quoted:

http://extremeskins.com/forums/showt...ghlight=editor

Good response in defense of not only your board, but message boards in general.

[CRT3]

Originally Posted by -Om-

For those who might be interested, this thread contains my Letter to the Editor pursuant to Mr. Wise's first column where he used this cheap stunt, as well as some comments from the poster who was quoted:

http://extremeskins.com/forums/showt...ghlight=editor

For the life of me I just do not understand why Extreme Mods constantly are checking and posting on this site. You would think with there 100,000 members and there deal with the Skins that they have enough to do over there. Checking all the Arrington post and making sure all are being good little boys and girls. But now they come over here to. I post over there sometimes but just when I see a thread that peaks my interest. But do they sit in front of the computer 24/7?

[cpayne5]

Originally Posted by Luxorreb

If Mike Wise can make these kinds of mistakes and get paid for it by the Washington Post no less, maybe I should apply. To quote a fansite is cheap and to not read the date of the post is even worse than bush league journalism. I know we've got alot of diehard fans here who know our facts, but is it too much to ask for a writer for the Washington Post to have a little more football street cred or at the very least a journalistic, fact checking approach? What has this world come too? The end of print media, coming soon!!!

Wise never said this was a recent quote. In fact, if you read the article, it's easy to see that it was said last year.

Sneet is a moron for saying it and a coward for blaming the WP for printing it.

It's probably not in ExtremeSkins best interest to get into a war with the Post. They (ES) will lose.

ExtremeSkins should take care of business at home before trying to 'take on the world'. It doesn't seem like they're really adjusting to being in the public eye very well.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by CRT3

For the life of me I just do not understand why Extreme Mods constantly are checking and posting on this site. You would think with there 100,000 members and there deal with the Skins that they have enough to do over there. Checking all the Arrington post and making sure all are being good little boys and girls. But now they come over here to. I post over there sometimes but just when I see a thread that peaks my interest. But do they sit in front of the computer 24/7?

Do we have a potential answer for question #3 here??

[-Om-]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Do we have a potential answer for question #3 here??

Sorry. Was away from the computer for a while.

Didn't get to see CT's latest hypocrisy. How many times is it you've shown up on ES since the merger for the sole purpose of poking a stick at us, CT? I've lost track.

As to why we'd check here ... because we're not provincial. And because we're fans of the team. We follow trends and discussion on all manner of Redskins boards (and even some of other teams, believe it or not) to keep abreast of what's happening.

Not quite sure why that would be a foreign concept to anyone.

[cpayne5]

Originally Posted by -Om-

Sorry. Was away from the computer for a while.

Didn't get to see CT's latest hypocrisy. How many times is it you've shown up on ES since the merger for the sole purpose of poking a stick at us, CT? I've lost track.

As to why we'd check here ... because we're not provincial. And because we're fans of the team. We follow trends and discussion on all manner of Redskins boards (and even some of other teams, believe it or not) to keep abreast of what's happening.

Not quite sure why that would be a foreign concept to anyone.

How come all of you ES guys have just recently joined TWP then?

[-Om-]

Originally Posted by cpayne5

How come all of you ES guys have just recently joined TWP then?

I don't speak for "all the ES guys," but I can speak for me. I've been a member of several Redskins boards for a long time, and I'm pretty sure I was a member here as well long before the merge, and long before my current account was activated. At some point along the way, I apparently managed to lose track of my original TWP account, and so registered again when the merger thing exploded and I felt compelled to at least TRY to dispell some of the more egregious misrepresentations I saw.

Still kinda hoping to do that to the extent possible .. though the level of animus I'm finding most of the time has me wondering if it's not like trying to play horse-whisperer to a hungry mako.

[EternalEnigma21]

I saw the article, and while the quote was a little extreme (blatant pun intended) the article was okay. Honestly, it was a bit redundant... there's no one reading his article that's not well aware that there was a bit of contraversey revolving around the decision to start brunell. It was just mid-week filler, when there's nothing to report on, so he thought he'd stir things up with a radical point of view. I honestly wouldn't have responded to it, (if I were you OM) because in doing so, you're justifying something you shouldn't.

Dont get me wrong, if you felt compelled to reply, then you did it with tact, and it was well written, which is more than I can say for the writings of some of your staff, but somtimes it's better to turn a blind's eye, and take the publicity any way it comes.

Whatever numbskull posted that is more than entitled to his opinion and thats why there are message boards... So that morons like you and me can voice our opinions and views without having a degree in journalism and a job with the post.

The article about the Giants-Skins history that was in the post yesterday was much better reading material, anyway.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

I'm sure I don't speak for everyone here, but I do agree that criticism simply from being from ES is unwarranted. I'm not even going to speak to the camp creditial story because I definitely don't know any of the details on that subject.

I do ask that unless you know the real story, don't criticize other people just because they're from another site. We're all part of one big family: The Redskins family.

Now if you know the story behind the credentials fiasco then bombs away, but don't chastise someone just because they choose to visit our board now and then. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who frequents all three other Skins sites.

[cpayne5]

Visiting is fine and dandy, but usually when they show up the bees start buzzing. If they want to come around as fans, fine, post as a fan, not as ES reps who seemingly only want to argue (ie"dispell egregious misrepresentations").