The New York Times and A.P. Will Keep Using the Washington NFL Team's Name

The drive to shame the Washington Redskins into changing its offensive moniker took a big blow Wednesday when The New York Times and Associated Press confirmed they would continue calling the team by its given name. 

While publications that rarely cover the NFL like Slate, Mother Jones, The New Republic have made it policy to drop the name, the movement to force a name change will need a bigger outlet to have a real effect. If The Times or the A.P. chose to join the fight, something might break. "Those are the two organizations whose usage standards, more than any others, are used as the model for newsrooms across the country,"