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SeriousSam said:
I think you overestimate the extent to which the key decision makers in sports governance manage doping, and the extent to which they have control. There's no smoke-filled room where they get together to identify sacrificial lambs. Instead, I imagine there is a tacit understanding that some transparency and anti-doping is needed, provided by largely independent but influencable bodies, but that marketable stars should be protected because it's bad for business if they're caught. The collusion that enables widespread doping is of the don't ask don't tell kind. They trust athletes to to manage their doping well. I imagine sacrificial lamps are actually very rare.
^Semenko(delli) aint stupid.
but, here...
with the Murdoch press in Australia... (I am gunna try and use this as an analogy)
with Newscorp in Australia, occasionally the press corps from Rupe's News (newsunlimited), occasionally the journos will arc up (be indignant) when the public say "oh, you are only printing and writing what Rupe told you"
well, no. This is not what the criticism is. The criticism is voiced in rhetoric, you the Newscorp reporter, only print the stuff Rupert told you. This is
rhetoric.
What occurs, you the journo, knows what is acceptable to the editor in the newscorp stable.
You wont deliver
copy to the editor, that he will not publish, and is unacceptable.
The editor has to deliver a paper that is acceptable to the proprietor.
There, is is a syllogism, you can see the numerous layers of a barrier to entry. In aristotelian logic term: sample fallacy, a survivor fallacy, a selective sample.
If you cant write newslimited
copy, you do not get the journalists salary at newslimited will you.
Serious Sam my reply
There can be corruption built in to systems. The corruption may have organically manifested, and it was never structurally imposed by the architect of the system. Or even Cookson, McQuaid, and Verbruggen. The corruption happened because there were not checks and balances built in at the weak points, or where the future weak points would occur.