How’s this for irony? The Redskins accused the NFL of collusion in their grievance challenging their $36 million salary cap penalty. But a day after that grievance was dismissed, the Redskins found themselves grouped among the defendants in a collusion lawsuit filed by the NFL Players Association against the league.If you were unsure whether the NFLPA filed the suit to help the Redskins remedy their cap penalty, this should quash any doubt. The NFLPA is out to claim $3 billion in damages for players league-wide. Helping the Redskins restore their salary cap space is not the intent of the suit. The case of the Redskins’ salary cap penalty simply served to elicit what the union believes is evidence of collusion.Of course, it seems counterintuitive to ... Continue reading →

The news is spreading here in New Orleans and across the journalism world: the fabled Times-Picayune, as we all know it, may cease to exist. Visitors tour Hurricane Katrina front pages from The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans and the Sun Herald of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, as part of the 'Covering Katrina' exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC. (Image credit: AFP via @daylife) Writing in The New York Times, David Carr gave details in today’s edition of what seems to have been a closely guarded secret. According to his sources, Newhouse Newspapers, a division of Advance Publications, the Times-Pic’s owner, plans to discontinue the daily paper and embrace the model that it used in Ann Arbor, Mich. That means relying heavily on the ... Continue reading →

Warren Buffett’s letter his editors and publishers Warren Buffett’s letter to his newspaper editors and publishers (via Omaha.com): May 23, 2012 To the Publishers and Editors of Berkshire Hathaway’s Daily Newspapers: Until recently, Berkshire has owned only one daily newspaper, The Buffalo News, purchased in 1977. In a month or so, we will own 26 dailies. I’ve loved newspapers all of my life — and always will. My dad, when attending the University of Nebraska, was editor of The Daily Nebraskan. (I have copies of the papers he edited in 1924.) He met my mother when she applied for a job as a reporter at the paper. Her father owned a small paper in West Point, Nebraska and my mother worked at various jobs at ... Continue reading →

The NFL Players Association on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit charging the NFL with colluding to impose “a secret $123 million per-Club salary cap” for the 2010 season. That season was to have no salary cap, as stipulated by the collective bargaining agreement between the sides.The lawsuit followed by one day an arbitrator’s dismissal of the Redskins’ grievance challenging a $36 million salary cap penalty the league imposed in March.The intent of the lawsuit is not to restore the Redskins’ salary cap space. Rather, the Redskins’ case served to elicit what the union considers to be evidence of collusion two years earlier.“NFL owners, NFL spokespeople, NFL executives all started to spill their guts and say, well, that the reason for all this is because there ... Continue reading →