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Redskins owner Dan Snyder drops lawsuit against City Paper
By Mike Jones
The Washington Redskins announced Saturday evening that owner Daniel M. Snyder has dropped his lawsuit against the Washington City Paper.

Snyder in April filed a lawsuit against the City Paper and reporter Dave McKenna on the grounds that an article that ran in November 2010 defamed the owner's character.

Snyder said that he did so upon the urging of senior vice president Tony Wyllie. This week Snyder in an interview with the New York Times Magazine said that he actually never read the article.

The team released the following statement:

“The lawsuit was pursued as a means to correct the public record following several critical factual misstatements in the Washington City Paper article,” Wyllie said. “In the course of the defendants’ recently filed pleadings and statements in this matter, the Washington City Paper and its writer have admitted that certain assertions contained in the article that are the subject of the lawsuit were, in fact, unintended by the defendants to be read literally as true. Therefore, we see nothing further to be gained at this time through continuing the lawsuit. We prefer to focus on the coming football season and the business at hand. We remain committed to assisting with responsible reportage of the Team and the many people involved in our organization, including Dan Snyder, and the principle that the truth and the facts matter in responsible journalism has been vindicated.”

The Redskins sent out the release at 8:20 p.m. Saturday, roughly 20 hours before the team kicks off the 2011 season at home against the New York Giants.

Irn-Bru wrote:What a jerk. I wonder how much of the paper's time and money he wasted with this hissy fit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/foo ... ll-insider

Redskins owner Dan Snyder drops lawsuit against City Paper
By Mike Jones
The Washington Redskins announced Saturday evening that owner Daniel M. Snyder has dropped his lawsuit against the Washington City Paper.

Snyder in April filed a lawsuit against the City Paper and reporter Dave McKenna on the grounds that an article that ran in November 2010 defamed the owner's character.

Snyder said that he did so upon the urging of senior vice president Tony Wyllie. This week Snyder in an interview with the New York Times Magazine said that he actually never read the article.

The team released the following statement:

“The lawsuit was pursued as a means to correct the public record following several critical factual misstatements in the Washington City Paper article,” Wyllie said. “In the course of the defendants’ recently filed pleadings and statements in this matter, the Washington City Paper and its writer have admitted that certain assertions contained in the article that are the subject of the lawsuit were, in fact, unintended by the defendants to be read literally as true. Therefore, we see nothing further to be gained at this time through continuing the lawsuit. We prefer to focus on the coming football season and the business at hand. We remain committed to assisting with responsible reportage of the Team and the many people involved in our organization, including Dan Snyder, and the principle that the truth and the facts matter in responsible journalism has been vindicated.”

The Redskins sent out the release at 8:20 p.m. Saturday, roughly 20 hours before the team kicks off the 2011 season at home against the New York Giants.

Bru,
The paper never needed to spend any time or money defending itself, if they had just printed a retraction or submitted a public apology for the items that were factually inaccurate and defaming. That is all Snyder ever wanted. He wanted the paper to admit that they stepped over a line with some of the things the journalist wrote and some of the things were simply lies.

If the paper had acted responsibly they never would have printed the paper as written. If they had been smart, they would have immediately admitted to being wrong. But no, they had to be just as pig headed and stubborn as Snyder.

Look I don't like the Danny, but the paper was responsible for any losses they took. It was their own making. They should have done the right thing immediately and admitted they screwed up in publishing that article the way it was written.

I have no sympathy for them.

With that said, Snyder got some horrendous advice to pursue this law suit. You notice now that he has a new PR man (someone with a brain) he dropped the case.

I blame David Donovan and the City Paper the most for this cluster frak of bad PR.

Moron.

Irn-Bru wrote:What a jerk. I wonder how much of the paper's time and money he wasted with this hissy fit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/foo ... ll-insider

Redskins owner Dan Snyder drops lawsuit against City Paper
By Mike Jones
The Washington Redskins announced Saturday evening that owner Daniel M. Snyder has dropped his lawsuit against the Washington City Paper.

Snyder in April filed a lawsuit against the City Paper and reporter Dave McKenna on the grounds that an article that ran in November 2010 defamed the owner's character.

Snyder said that he did so upon the urging of senior vice president Tony Wyllie. This week Snyder in an interview with the New York Times Magazine said that he actually never read the article.

The team released the following statement:

“The lawsuit was pursued as a means to correct the public record following several critical factual misstatements in the Washington City Paper article,” Wyllie said. “In the course of the defendants’ recently filed pleadings and statements in this matter, the Washington City Paper and its writer have admitted that certain assertions contained in the article that are the subject of the lawsuit were, in fact, unintended by the defendants to be read literally as true. Therefore, we see nothing further to be gained at this time through continuing the lawsuit. We prefer to focus on the coming football season and the business at hand. We remain committed to assisting with responsible reportage of the Team and the many people involved in our organization, including Dan Snyder, and the principle that the truth and the facts matter in responsible journalism has been vindicated.”

The Redskins sent out the release at 8:20 p.m. Saturday, roughly 20 hours before the team kicks off the 2011 season at home against the New York Giants.

Bru,
The paper never needed to spend any time or money defending itself, if they had just printed a retraction or submitted a public apology for the items that were factually inaccurate and defaming. That is all Snyder ever wanted. He wanted the paper to admit that they stepped over a line with some of the things the journalist wrote and some of the things were simply lies.

If the paper had acted responsibly they never would have printed the paper as written. If they had been smart, they would have immediately admitted to being wrong. But no, they had to be just as pig headed and stubborn as Snyder.

Look I don't like the Danny, but the paper was responsible for any losses they took. It was their own making. They should have done the right thing immediately and admitted they screwed up in publishing that article the way it was written.

I have no sympathy for them.

With that said, Snyder got some horrendous advice to pursue this law suit. You notice now that he has a new PR man (someone with a brain) he dropped the case.

I blame David Donovan and the City Paper the most for this cluster frak of bad PR.

Moron.

Irn-Bru wrote:What a jerk. I wonder how much of the paper's time and money he wasted with this hissy fit.