So when I teach Writing for the Media I always tell my students that they're to be objective, to not let their feelings about a subject color the story they're writing. And then I read a story about how A-Rod admits that he has indeed used performance-enhancing drugs during his career, and I read the following quote in Ronald Blum's AP story about the baseball player:

“I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field,” [A-Rod] said then. “I felt that if I did my, my work as I've done since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level.”

And man, never before have I read such a quote. By letting it stand as-is, in its entirety, Blum very deftly tells us how he feels about A-Rod: A-Rod is a prize idiot. Blum is my media hero of the day.