Indeed.
Sadly mainstream TV isn't interested in truth, just soundbites, chewing gum for the small brains who watch with interest.
Over here in the UK we had a steroid 'scandal' a few years ago, a sprinter named Dwain Chambers. He received a lifetime Olympic ban.
More recently he appeared on This Morning, a so-called magazine programme, and was interviewed by Eamonn Holmes, a fat Irish waste-of-space 25-year veteran of English daytime telly.
Holmes (co-hosting with his wife, how nice) brought the discussion to a close with this:
EH: Now, I think what people really want is to hear you say I'm-sorry. Are you sorry?
DC: Of course I'm sorry, I've said I'm sorry many times, every day of my life I'm sorry.
Jesus Christ! Clearly Dwain Chambers isn't the smartest man on Earth. Had he a brain cell or two, he might have pointed out that Holmes was talking out of his arsehole. Who are these 'people' who long to hear him apologise for getting caught doping? Who really gives a fuck? And even if they do, who are they to demand any apology!?
He might also have revealed that all of his competitors are doping too, and that's been the case in athletics for decades.
But no, he adopted an obsequious stance for whitey, and that was that. The saps watching got what they wanted, and good old cuddly Eamonn and his show were nominated for a BAFTA!
I'd love to have seen Eamonn invite Michael Johnson onto the couch, see if he could fuck with him.
TV wankers. Nothing a slug in the face wouldn't sort.
DAMY