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Written by Kevin Sellathamby
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Tuesday, 05 April 2011 10:07 |
First off- a note about the site: if you were wondering about the lack of posts (the last one being all the way back on October 12th), a lot of it would have to do with most of the contributors having to deal with other blogs that they write for. If you're wondering who I am, I'm Kevin Sellathamby and I write for the Devils Blog In Lou We Trust. I asked Dani about CLS mainly so i'd have a place to talk about other issues around the league or issues that aren't really relevant to the Devils but issues that I feel strongly about (i.e. Todd Bertuzzi's hit on Ryan Johnson last week). So I have her to thank for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this site. I'll also occasionally throw in something funny every once in a while.
One of the recent issues surrounding the NHL has been the Islanders chapter of the PHWA's attempt to boycott the NHL awards voting after Islanders writer Chris Botta had his credentials revoked by the Islanders earlier this season. Before today, three chapters were willing to commit- the Isles, the Rangers chapter and the Devils chapter. Earlier today, Puck Daddy's Greg Wyshynski broke news about the Blue Jackets' Chapter joining in on the Boycott via twitter. A few hours later, the Toronto Star's Damien Cox put up a post (now deleted, but cached here, h/t to @sdougbrown for the cache) regarding the news. After the article was posted, popular Leafs blogger Chemmy mentioned on twitter that a quote was edited out of the post. These quotes happened to be regarding the Star's lack of recent access to the Leafs, which was likely due to a recent post by the Star ridiculing the Leafs. Here is the quote in question-
"Currently, The Star is in an ongoing minor dispute with the Maple Leafs, having had our access restricted by president/GM Brian Burke in retaliation for a story published last week that Burke deemed unfair. Attempts to resolve the dispute so far have failed; the league has not be asked to intervene."
According to Cox on twitter, his editor deleted the quote from him. In protest, Cox deleted the story. This is an interesting story seeing as the person who wrote the piece, Chloe Fedio was a new writer at the star and someone who wasn't a sports writer. Cox looks like he's innocent here (for once). Cox also has a short rant about NHL teams hiring their own writers to put out "thinly disguised propaganda". But now it starts to get complicated.
There's been a recent tweet involving a quote from Burke himself from @yyzsportsmedia, mentioning that he did not restrict credentials from any of the media outlets in Toronto. On one hand, you've got word from the boss upstairs that all's well in the Toronto MSM, but on the other hand you've got a member of the Toronto sports media complaining about a lack of access. So who to believe? As of now, there's too little information and too much craziness to tell what's going on right now.
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