SKINS ALIVE: You can hardly tell from reading the Seattle Times, but that city's football team faces the Washington Redskins in an NFL playoff this weekend. Only "redskins" is an un-PC term at the paper, so its reporters have been laboring to write about the game without mentioning the opposing team's name. The Washington Post labeled the naming restriction a "cheap shot" but also pointed out a journalistic flaw in the Seattle Times strategy: "The Redskins will be referred to almost exclusively as Washington--which could get a little confusing for local readers who also live in that state."
James Taranto had some fun with this earlier in the week.
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