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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
Cheering in the press box, regardless of your affiliation, is a little tacky and doesn't seem very professional in my book.
But that's just my opinion.
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You're right, it's not a professional thing for a sportswriter to do. But they're not sportswriters. Dan Snyder gets to decide who he puts in the pressbox, and if he wants to put biased fans in there, then that's his prerogative.
Those guys are in the pressbox because there is a big demand for their product. They put out biased opinions on the Redskins through their site and the column published weekly on Redskins.com.
If Lenny P and Peter King can spew their biased anti-Skins venom all over ESPN and SI, why can't Dan Snyder counter by providing biased pro-Skins material?
I'm all for it, give the fans what they want. Ideally we'd like objective reporting. But if our choices are material biased against the Redskins, or material biased for the Redskins, you know what I'd like to be reading.