Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me, Larry Michael.

Didn't Larry "make up" a touchdown call on the long onside kick in the Seattle game?

Larry Michael is a homer and a homer paid by dan snyder. that is clear.

and JLC hates the skins,but just happens to be their beat writer,and while he digs up some good nuggets.He can't help but give a negative spin on any news he reports about the skins.The same origination that according to clark judge,and noted skins bashers Pete Prisco&Pete King is improving.

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It's so much easier just to accuse Jason La Canfora of being an unreliable liar than to actually check the veracity of his claims, which, to people who read it daily, is quite good. I get as much breaking Redskins news (that turns out to be true) from his site as I do from Redskins.com. That's not a knock against the latter, I've just found that often-times Jason gets the word out on his blog before the team has had a chance to prep a press release.

I don't understand the need for Post vs. Redskins Round 82 because both have the same goal in mind; get readers talking/thinking about the Redskins. As far as I can tell, the vast majority of people at Redskins Insider have a lot in common with the vast majority of people at Extreme Skins or the official site, namely, they are fans of the Washington Redskins. Jason La Canfora might be critical of the ownership of the Redskins (although let's not overstate it) but he's still, on a daily basis, providing content on and about the team for rabid Redskins fans who just want more more more more faster content on the team they love. People crazy enough to spend their working hours on Redskins Insider, or the Bog, or Redskins.com hitting refresh, are precisely the kind of people crazy enough to jabber Redskins to whomever is crazy enough to listen, including their crazy kids. If the point of the Redskins franchise is to increase its brand and thus raise the bottom line, then they benefit hugely from the Bog and Redskins Insider when these two sites promote aspects of the team that readers enjoy.

And The Post benefits from the insane fans the Redskins somehow create because those people click the website, and some of them even order newspapers so that they can read about the team they love.

So why this inexplicable conflict? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Really, Larry Michael gets a little more pitiful every day, doesn't he? A grown man brought that low . . .

grrrrrr

How can a beat writer NOT report on the zany antics of an organization? It is part of the story. And how can a beat writer not report on the strange decision making processes of an organization, and how those strange decision making processes seem to have influenced certain decisions?

it becomes an issue when reporting facts becomes reporting opinions and agendas,and a majority of redskins fans feel like JLC has crossed that line.

He reports as if he has a bone to pick with Dan Snyder and the FO,and if you can't see that your probably just a blind sheep who believes everything in JLC's blog.

the skins have made the playoffs past 2/3 years,and you'd think JLC was covering the lions who haven't made the playoffs since 1999.and while the skins FO has been iffy and been growing up in some people' eyes and other media's eyes, we're no where close having the goonsquad that is matt millen and the lions FO.

are we superbowl contenders?probably not

but are as bad off as JLC thinks...no way

Blogs are personality driven - bottom line. I think J-La does a good job of reporting the facts in his articles and keeping his opinion and agenda, sometimes using those same facts, in the Blog.

They two should be viewed and consumed appropriately. Unfornutaely with most things internet, its the audience that don't/can't differentiate between the two mediums.

Ron Burgundy-

"it becomes an issue when reporting facts becomes reporting opinions and agendas,and a majority of redskins fans feel like JLC has crossed that line."

So you are obviously against columnists, then? What do they do besides report their opinions?

Jason La Canfora writes a BLOG. His BLOG is not nor should it be under the same scrutiny as his articles which, as far as I can tell, are fine reporting. As is his blog.

You do not speak for a majority of Redskins fans.

"the skins have made the playoffs past 2/3 years,and you'd think JLC was covering the lions who haven't made the playoffs since 1999."

I wouldn't have any idea what it would look like if La Canfora was covering the Lions. I do know that the Colts local media, along with the Boston papers (New England), definitely don't pull punches when they report on those respective teams, and both have been much, much more successful then the Redskins lately.

I read every single article Jason writes. Some of it is critical of the ownership. So what? Is that not a story? Is there exactly one position one can/must have on the ownership of the team?

I think you are confused about what it is NEWSPAPERS are supposed to do. If you don't want to read negative comments about the team, then a newspaper really isn't the right source. I'd suggest finding a cheerleader blog or reading the Official Site.

I also think your main problem is that you seem to know better than the rest of us that Redskins Insider, or La Canfora's Post articles, are overtly one-sided. I read them too, and I simply disagree with your conclusion. You'd do your position well to cite some actual articles (not blog posts) where Jason goes too far anti-Redskin.

I read everything redskins related put on the web by the WT and the WP.

JLC's articles are completely neutral,and this is because if he let his feelings be known his credibility as a journalist would be shot to death.His blog though shows his dislike for the FO and ownership,and if you've ever seen him on washington post live,you can tell he thinks he knows more about football than the skins FO.He thinks the skins are headed for a terrible year.

I just think it's hilarious when people act like JLC's blog is neutral.Cause it's not. And if you read it you'd find that very often he takes shots at the skins FO or ownership.

and yes the FO should be under the gaze of the media,but it's pretty clear to me and many other redskins fans that JLC is constantly ax grinding on his blog.

maybe if you like reading negative crappy blogging you should go jump in traffic.

bottom line is JLC doesn't like the redskins and wants to see them fail.WHY?Because if anything else besides that happens everything he wrote in his blog would be for not and he'd look like a moron.

Could you honestly see JLC recanting everything he said in his blog if the redskins made a deep playoff push this year?

the WT's blog would be so much better than JLC's blog if they kept it up to date as Redskins Insider is. Mainly because Redskins Blog 360 is spin free and nothing but the facts.

Do you think Larry Michael realize what a laughingstock he is outside of Redskins Park? I mean, that's a grown man acting like that. Calling JLC the Sourcerer! Wooo! That's a good one! Who was his focus group? Seventh graders?!
And Ron Burgandy sounds like a paranoid dillusional Skins fan. Who cares if JLC's blog is negative to the Skins? Why would one person's opinion matter to your enjoyment of the team? My favorite is when Ron Burgandy says the Times blog would be better than the Post's if they updated it more. Burgandy also would be better if he weren't so fat. And he would be smarter if he weren't so stupid.

haha your insults are almost as bad as JLC blog

haha your insults are almost as bad as JLC's blog.

why do you care to respond to my post I must gotten under your skin by saying the truth of your precious J-la.

I'm just trying to rile things up over here,and apparently it's working. cause all the little kids are getting throwing tantrums like yourself because they can't handle the truth

larry michael and JLC are one in the same.LM is horrible at his obvious attempts to spin things in the redskins favor.and JLC would rather focus on the negatives redskins front office than actually report on anything worthwhile.

larry reeks of pro skins bias and anyone can see that.I had to quit listening to redskins radio when bram left.

if you've cleared the 2nd grade,and read J-la's blog you can easily tell it has an anti-skins agenda. Not that all of JLC's facts are wrong,BUT it's a joke that he's the teams beatwriter for a blog,when every other week he's writing an assassination piece.

it's like "we get it!!!JLC thinks the skins FO fell off the short bus."

give me an in depth article on reed doughty and how he's shaping up to the challenge of being a starter.maybe an indepth article on the rehab of Carlos Rogers or Rocky McIntosh or Jon Jansen or Randy Thomas.

not just the "he's on schedule" tagline we see from the redskins or JLC's blog.

and lol at being paranoid and delusional

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