Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:27:25 -0500

From: Grant Barrett gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JERRYNET.COM

Subject: RE Re: sportswriters' disease



Journalists, of course, lay a claim to alcoholism as the a requirement of the profession, and for

good reason, I think.



When I was still a small-time journalist, my peers and I went to a journalism conference in Baton

Rouge. We were met in the hotel lobby by six happily drunk Pulitzer Prize winners, and I've often

thought of that as typical since.



Grant Barrett

gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dfjp.com