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Blueshirt Banter Radio Circles the Wagons Tonight at 8:30 PM

If you read the story in today's edition of Puck Daddy, you obviously know by now that according to the New York Radioproto12400_mediumRangers, I am the problem. It's not the bloated contracts, it's not the mismanagement, it's not the way the organization has disconnected itself from its fanbase, its me. Little ol' fat me is the problem, and the Rangers are determined to do something about it.

My official take on the whole thing will be here on Blueshirt Banter in the morning, but me and Eddie have decided to have a special edition of Blueshirt Banter Radio tonight at 8:30 (note the special start time) to talk about it.

I promise you it is an episode you won't want to miss.

Hope to see you tonight.

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How dare anyone try to hold the Rangers as an organization accountable for poor job performance. How about find someone who can sucessfully put a winning product on the ice? Like it was some big secret that Sather has done a terrible job over the decade he has been running the Rangers. This ownership group is the joke of the NHL, but they are more worried about keeping this little secret quiet then fixing the problem.

"Sorry bro, he Jason Bourned me"- Drama

by BL3ACH on Aug 26, 2010 4:41 PM EDT reply actions  

I can’t believe they would protect useless Sather from the fans and people who pay the salaries of the entire organization!!! God forbid the fans should get their say!!!

by blueshirts1623 on Aug 26, 2010 5:09 PM EDT reply actions  

To play devil’s advocate for a minute, I can see where giving credentials to blogs could be harder to track then credentials for the handful of newspaper reporters in each city who cover a teams beat. Also, newspapers offer a bit more stability for each outlet. Reporters may come and go, but the need for production and distribution of the physical papers will lead to the change in ownership of an entity, rather then a paper folding and being surpased by another. However, the team should be working towards finding a way to accomodate this new form of media, rather then simply ignoring it.

Some questions I would have for Mr. Dolan about his dismissal of blogs as a form of media….

1. If Blogs aren’t as important as traditional media, why do you charge everyone who doesn’t subscribe to your internet service or print edition to view the blogs on your Newsday site?

2. Why where you so eager to pay upwards of $5 million to purchase Gothamist?

3. Finally, if Blogs aren’t important, why pull all your advertising from The Village Voice over a silly little dick joke?

by BuckarooClub on Aug 26, 2010 7:10 PM EDT reply actions  

Wow Jim tough week! The 40th BDay, the Mount Puckmore situation, and now this!!!! The Rangers are 100% out of touch with the real world & its fan-base. Keep up the great work, remember one day Sather will be gone.

by AndroSFL on Aug 26, 2010 7:13 PM EDT reply actions  

How dare you Jim… How dare you… haha… my favorite was the comment below all of that that said… i don’t need a blogger to tell me Sather sucks… haha… other than that… Bravo as you are not something that the Rangers Management talks about… No press is bad press

by Clalicata17 on Aug 26, 2010 10:53 PM EDT reply actions  

My POV

I know this is going to make me rather unpopular but I see both sides of this issue because I have to deal with it every day. I can not blame the Rangers or any other team from not issuing credentials when bloggers act like fans and not like journalists.

Sorry Jim I can see the Ranger’s POV if you were one of the leaders of the “Fire Sather” rally. I was not there so I do not know what role you played but a journalist has to cover the story not become part of it.

If you at the rally was an active participant and not just covering the event then the Rangers just might have an argument here. That is the problem here is there is no established rules as to define the difference between the blogger who is a fan or the blogger journalist.

You, Nick and Eddie do a great job here at the Banter but ask yourself are you a journalist or a fan voicing your opinion? That is the weapon the Rangers and even the Mainstream Media want to use against you, me and anyone who has a blog.

I read Puck Daddy’s article and one thing struck me more than the NHL stance and that was the Pro Hockey Writers Association still has not come up with standards for membership for bloggers. In 2006 at the Entry Draft the PHWA held their meeting and I happen to sit in for curiousity.

The PHWA has been talking about developing a policy for bloggers since before 2006 and that too should be as much an issue as the NHL stance.

And I also think that if Cablevision had their way they would ban even the mainstream media so their “Anti-blogger” stance is part of their own dislike of the media in general.

Right now bloggers are easy targets because the line between fan and journalist has not been established. And this dispute is going to continue until those lines are established.

by ProspectPark on Aug 27, 2010 3:56 AM EDT reply actions  

We were not participants, we covered it.

I’m not a journalist, never said I was. Don’t want to be. Just want to be a guy who runs a good website, that Ranger fans enjoy, and know that at the end of the day I didn’t have to suck the MSG teat.

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