USA Today Sells Out to the Animal Abusers...Again
Imagine for a moment that you are at a game in the World Series, and you witness an official of Major League Baseball, say the Vice Chairman of the Board, secretly injecting some players with a fast-acting, very illegal stimulant. Imagine that as you watched this unimaginable thing transpire, it became obvious that the umpires were in on the tampering.
Of course, it is impossible to conceive of such a wildly implausible scenario. What would be even harder to imagine is that if it were documented, that the media, including sports writers and even the media like USA Today, would be unwilling to cover it.
While this scenario did not happen in the world of legitimate sports, it did in fact happen in December 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s National Finals Rodeo (NFR).
SHARK video recorders caught the number two person in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association -- the Vice Chairman of the Board, Charles Soileau -- shocking some, but not all horses with a very small shock device hidden in the palm of his hand. The device was held in place with a flesh-colored band around his middle finger. Fully aware of the nature of what he was doing, Mr. Soileau kept his hand palm down, so his device was virtually invisible.
But does Gary Mihoces at USA Today write about this? Of course not, he writes
a fluff piece, just like the fluff piece that USA Today does every year for the
NFR. A real reporter and a true journalistic publication would at least look at
the other side of the issue and not just tack on a sentence at the end of the
article from PETA's website. This is reporting?
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