Iconoclasm: journalism, doping and Federer

Every time I come to write this blog, or just check the sports news for that matter, doping seems to occupy an ever-increasing amount of column inches, being pushed further and further in the agenda by the press. Whilst this is good in some respects, the quality of the writing and insight offered from the usual sports journalists is, frankly, poor. That is not to say that they are poor journalists, rather their pieces lack any fresh ideas and seem only to retrace the footsteps of those who have written and argued so much about the scourge of doping in sport over the last few years. The Guardian’s drugs in sport special of last week exhibited these flaws.