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