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“To threaten to fire his wife —
that is objectionable on so many levels that I couldn’t even count them,” said Bill Lord, station manager at WJLA (Channel 7). “When we go to the PR depart- ment at any company and ask to do a story, the last thing you ex- pect is that they’ll take the story and give it to a competitor. That is just flat wrong. I’m always go- ing to think that’s unethical. It was hijacked.” The team denies that the di-
rector of its cheerleading squad spoke of firing Kristin Edick. In a letter to Lord on Tuesday, Red- skins owner Daniel Snyder of- fered a “personal apology” for the exclusion of WJLA. “I do regret actions taken by our representatives that pre- vented your news organization from being able to report on the surprise early return of Lt. Den- ver Edick and his reunion with his wife Kristin, one of our cheer- leaders,” Snyder wrote. He said he is “making many changes in personnel and policy” that he hopes will ensure “that the Red- skins are respectful and fair to the journalists that are covering our team.” (Karl Swanson, senior vice president for public rela- tions, resigned Monday but his departure had been in the works before this controversy.) Lord said he welcomed Sny-
der’s letter and wants to “rebuild the relationship,” but “I also think he ought to apologize to the lieutenant and his wife” for the pressure applied on them. David Donovan, the Redskins’
chief operating officer, said Ed- ick initially contacted the team, which learned later about WJLA’s involvement and alerted WRC (Channel 4), the NBC sta- tion in Washington. “There have been times when our broadcast partners are afforded exclusive opportunities, but this should not have been one of them. . . . Apparently, this was an over- exuberant attempt to support one of our partners,” Donovan said in an e-mail.
Edick, in full-dress uniform, surprised his wife Thursday eve- ning at FedEx Field, where the cheerleaders were conveniently practicing. “My legs turned to Jell-O,” Kristin Edick told WRC after jumping up to embrace her husband. WRC aired the story that night, and the Redskins’ of- ficial blog featured the video as well, saying: “Not really much to add to this one besides
Awwwwww.”
Edick said from Quantico, where he is now based, that he was pleased by the story but troubled by the dispute that de- veloped. “I hope none of this will get me or my wife in trouble,” he said. “The Redskins were abso- lutely awesome in everything they did.”
WRC spokesman Matt Glass- man said in a statement: “We went to FedEx Field to cover a story. We did not request that it be exclusive and have no knowl- edge why another station was denied access.” He declined to comment further.
Edick, 28, is from the Ashe-
ville, N.C., area. He was sched- uled to return from Iraq in Janu- ary but volunteered to extend his tour in Afghanistan. When a military rule barred him from staying in that war zone longer, he got in touch with WLOS, the ABC affiliate in Asheville, which asked if he could stage the re- union with his wife back home in North Carolina. When that proved logistically impossible, the station asked WJLA to send a crew to the cou- ple’s reunion in Washington and provide the tape, a common practice among affiliates — and a
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Dear Miss Manners: I will get only six to 10 tickets
for my college graduation. I have a clear list of whom I want to invite, but my grandmother keeps pushing me to get extra tickets to include all my aunts, uncles, cousins and other extended family and friends of hers from church. I disagree because I feel I should invite only those who have helped me along the way, and those who I really want to be there. Most of my extended family either doesn’t know me very well, hasn’t helped me at all, or has repeatedly hurt or angered me over the years.
Does proper etiquette say I
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PRETTY PICTURE: Behind the scenes, there was a lot of drama over Kristin and Denver Edick’s reunion.
winning story for WJLA as well, because it involved the city’s football franchise.
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Bryan Luhn, assistant news di- rector at WLOS, said he suggest- ed alternatives to the team after learning that it would cooperate only with WRC. The Redskins became broadcast partners last year with WRC, which carries ex- hibition games and pre- and postgame segments. Luhn said he asked Stephanie
Jojokian, the cheerleaders’ direc- tor, whether WJLA could inter- view Kristin Edick and her hus- band afterward, outside the sta- dium or even at a restaurant. “She could do that, but she’ll no longer be a Redskins cheer- leader,” Luhn recalls Jojokian saying. “She is contractually ob- ligated to the Redskins.” Luhn said he was “kind of stunned by that. You’d really fire a cheerleader who’s getting ready to see her husband after a year and a half in Iraq over me- dia access? . . . How can they not want coverage for this story? It’s a great story. It’s free publicity.” The Redskins’ Donovan said he spoke to Jojokian and that “she told me this was absolutely not true. I would not have per- mitted that to happen.”
Edick, caught in the middle, said he felt that WJLA reporter Jay Korff “was being rude” as the dispute escalated. “I felt the guy at Channel 7 was asking me to do things I wasn’t comfortable
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have to use my grandmother’s list, or may I use my own list since it’s my event?
What your grandmother does not seem to understand is that relatives who have hitherto shown no particular interest in you — let alone her friends, who might not even know you — will not be thrilled to be invited to your graduation. In fact — trust Miss Manners
—they will be annoyed. It takes a strong emotional
involvement with the graduate to make it rewarding to sit in an auditorium (or in the sun or the rain) listening to assorted speeches and several hundred names being called out while dodging parent-armed cameras. Your grandmother feels this involvement and must be invited, but she is dreaming to think that everyone she knows does. Rather, they will be fretting about having to come up with excuses and wondering if this means they have to give you graduation presents. (It doesn’t.) Try explaining to your
grandmother, perhaps with the help of whichever parent is her child, that you would feel dreadful about appearing to impose any such obligations on others. This is a more attractive argument than the “my event” one.
If it doesn’t work, you will have to fall back on your inability to get the tickets. Your grandmother will conclude that college has not fitted you to fight your way in the world, but so be it.
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Dear Miss Manners: I paid for my recent divorce and completed all the paperwork, as well as appearing in court with a witness. Immediately following the court date, my now-ex e-mailed me asking how the divorce went and enclosed a link, which turned out to be a newspaper engagement announcement to his soon-to-be-fourth wife. This announcement had
obviously taken place before the divorce was finalized. By the way, I am very welcome to fly up to attend the wedding! Your take on this, please, manners-wise.
mother not to address me as her daughter-in-law or my son as her grandson? (He is not her grandson, and she knows that.)
Why, exactly, does this annoy
you? There are so many para-families these days that it strikes Miss Manners as welcoming of the lady to count you as hers. If you truly want no part of this, the polite way to correct her is to say, “I’m afraid I cannot claim that honor.”
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