All bloggers are equal, but certain Official Redskins Bloggers are more equal than others.

You will have more freedom in Beijing when you cover the Olympics.

Next time, make sure you tuck them in before you embed.

bada-bing!

Wow. I think there was actually a case about this recently with some far-flung state (Kansas?) where a blogger embedded a tv video (because it had the 'embed' option) and they tried to sue him. They finally conceded oops, yeah, we did want people to embed and spread our video and brand and "my bad" for threatening to sue. It's a scary new world out there!

They make it so much harder for you than it needs to be, Dan. That said, the unnecessarily stringent guidelines did lead to some good Animal Farm humor. So there's that.

Well, some 'Skins are known to be Hogs, right? So obviously, the animal farm references apply =)

May I suggest you use artist renderings, like in court cases where there is no video in the courtroom.

Imagine Jason Taylor drawn manga style with big eyes.

Imagine Zorn as a hard-scrabbled Commisioner Gordon.

The Redskins have always been at war with the Cowboys.

Just because Dan refused to be the Foreskins blogger, the Ministry of Information decides to go to war on every video, embedded clip and blog post.

Keep up the great posts Dan, your writing is so much better than the trash from Matt Terl. At times, I can't tell if Terl, Snyder, Swanson, or Larry Michael wrote those Kool-Aid flavored posts.

i think it's funny that the terl's blog has the sports bog as the second rss feed. and this is the article you see when hovering over that link.. ;)

(that being said, i don't get the anger to his blog. his one entry talking about media i guess could have been homerish, but the other stuff seems to be alright... just the lighter side kind of like dan does - but not as good ;p. by the looks of it, he's trying to go between talking about actual practice performance and the jovial side of the players. i won't hate on him as of yet. if 'bonita' applebaum can grow on the dc faithful, matt terl has a chance.... ;p)

So how long until the Skins limit all press coverage and strictly rely on team generated news programs?

This would be funny if it weren't so incredibly not funny. Information control, Ashburn style. Whoa...

Hey Dan,

Cheer up!

Love,

A Reader

"burgundy claws of death and darkness are scratching scars into my soul."

Don't you mean "maroon and black claws of death" Dan?

This stuff cracks me up. Really. All of this really reminds you that sports really are no longer a public trust. Sports franchises are a corporate entity. The brand that is the Redskins is the intellectual property of Dan Snyder and Redskins, Inc.

Since your access to the team is probably toast, you should feel embolden to blog freely now. The nemesis of those who try to control the media and message is that they can't control the media anymore. Oh, how much damage a popular blog can do. Go, for it dude. Wait, if you got a wife and kids and a mortgage and all that...nevermind.

This is double plus ungood.

Whoa! (that was me acting surprised)

This kind of stuff is sad really.

I thought the Redskins' colors were burgundy and gold, not Communist Red.

Be careful not to commit anymore thoughtcrimes.

Perhaps you can draw stick figure diagrams of what is going on at Redskins park. If we scroll real fast, it will look like animation.

I say you just shoot video and send it to the Giants, Cowboys, and Eagles.

Stop Whinning becasue yuoyu are not good at your job. Don't Blame the Redskins when you use Copyrighted material to"enhance" your boring dribble to get others to look at it. If you can write soemthign about teh Redskins someone would want to read on its own, then find a new line of work!

Hey sources, or should I say Redskins employee X, lighten up. We must find a way to get back at the evil empire for this!

Most of the Washington Power People are terribly inept, particularly when it comes to issue involving law or technology. It doesn't matter if they're pretending to run a Cabinet department or an NFL franchise. When you're important you just need to yell a lot, or have your law-talking guy yell a lot, and avoid learning anything about late 20th century America. That's why Bill Clinton was unable to operate an ATM, why John McCain can't send an email, and why Al Gore uses two fingers when he types.

Absolute power not only corrupts, it also covers up.

For a team that's won two playoff games in 15 years, the Redskins are awfully arrogant.

F Snyder.

Just because Dan is sending stuff to Ashburn doesn't mean the Skins are reading it. He might be sending it to Mottram's AOL contacts.

Other requests from Ashburn:

-- Please make sure you put a cover sheet on that TPS report.

-- Please make sure you refer to Dan Snyder as "Daniel Snyder, the kingly Redskins buffet of manliness."

-- Please make sure you avoid linking to any blog featuring a blogspot, wordpress or livejournal address. Especially livejournal. Those girls are catty.

The case misschatter is referring to is the Des Moines Register putting an embed tag on its video of the destruction of downtown Cedar Rapids during the floods earlier this summer, and then ordering the Iowa blog "Black Heart Gold Pants" to remove it from their site.

And those "far flung states" you refer to provide you with most of what is on your table every night...be it McDonalds or what you bought at the supermarket.

In other words, we supply life.

Godwin'd