Washington Post editorials will no longer use ‘Redskins’ for the local NFL team
But this isn’t as big a deal as it seems as the the decision of the editors to stop using “Redskins” only applies to editorials and not the rest of the paper or website:
What we are discussing here is a change only for editorials. Unlike our colleagues who cover sports and other news, we on the editorial board have the luxury of writing about the world as we would like it to be. Nor do we intend to impose our policy on our readers. If you write a letter about football and want to use the team name, we aren’t going to stop you.
That seems pretty self-serving. The term is only banned in the part of the paper that won’t lose them angry readers?