Agassi's "open" media chase : why howling with wolves ?

Rushing into the breach created by Mr Agassi's admittance of drug use (only at specified times of his career), many newspapers, blogs and TV channels have stepped up their media coverage of the case.

Once more, emotion and concussion are taking over rationale. It was to be expected.

The most outstanding example is that Mr Ander Agassi is now taking blame for an "erra" of alleged leniency from the ATP, the professional tennis governing body.

Geneva daily "la Tribune de Genève" (see link below) claims that "Agassi's revelations exemplify abuses of long-gone days". On what grounds drug use is no longer a hot topic in tennis and professional sports ?

To be fair -and that will be the focus of a later post- it's debatable whether Mr Andre Agassi's drug use was condoned BECAUSE he was a high-profile tennis player. Second question is : why Andre Agassi is unearthing this fact now, given the fact that he took advantage of it to resurrect as a tennis player ?

Now, it's interesting to point out the fact that Agassi's "duty" towards posterity is not the same as that of an average tennis player. Hence the paramount media attention he receives. That being said, Agassi does not deserve to be perceived as THE only shameful case of his sport.

Fairer media treatment should give him credit for risking more than being stripped of his Grand Slam Titles : because his dignity is at stake. Why howling with wolves ?

La Tribune de Genève, "Les aveux d’Agassi trahissent les abus d’une époque révolue" : http://www.tdg.ch/actu/sports/aveux-agassi-trahissent-abus-epoque-revolue-2009-10-30