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If It Isn't News, TMZ Ceases To Exist
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Sometime in the wee hours, Hines Ward got arrested on a DUI charge in Georgia. You know I'm pretty harsh on people with DUIs (although mostly for repeat offenders; once can be a mistake, twice means you have a problem, three times is inexcusable), but the way Twitter and the sports press reacted to this story -- there was a LOT of Breaking News-style coverage -- raised the question for me whether something like this really deserves the Breaking News attention. Does the fact that it's a sports hero/"Dancing With the Stars" star make it news when it wouldn't be for anyone else? Should we care any more about a Hines Ward alleged DUI than for Joe Schmoe weaving in traffic? (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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