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The tide has turned - the US Media
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-littman/lance-armstrongs-hunter_b_591660.html
the media ha finally turned the corner
there is an old truth that politicians and athletes tend to learn too late: "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up." Few seasoned sports fans will be surprised in the coming months and years when we see all too clearly that the corporate fairy tale of American cycling - buoyed by the support of millions of self-deluded fans who bought into the myth - appears to have been built on lies.
As a journalist who for the better part of two years made regular jaunts to a San Francisco federal courtroom and watched countless athletes dragged through the BALCO steroids scandal, I can't help noting how celebrity jocks keep failing to learn this lesson.
Memo to Lance: Drug investigations are built on the testimony and evidence of men and women who take drugs. They are rarely nice people. They often lie, in part or in whole, but their testimony often leads to snaring the big fish.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-littman/lance-armstrongs-hunter_b_591660.html
the media ha finally turned the corner
there is an old truth that politicians and athletes tend to learn too late: "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up." Few seasoned sports fans will be surprised in the coming months and years when we see all too clearly that the corporate fairy tale of American cycling - buoyed by the support of millions of self-deluded fans who bought into the myth - appears to have been built on lies.
As a journalist who for the better part of two years made regular jaunts to a San Francisco federal courtroom and watched countless athletes dragged through the BALCO steroids scandal, I can't help noting how celebrity jocks keep failing to learn this lesson.
Memo to Lance: Drug investigations are built on the testimony and evidence of men and women who take drugs. They are rarely nice people. They often lie, in part or in whole, but their testimony often leads to snaring the big fish.