The Zapper

If you thought baseball beat writers were fashion-challenged, fast-food-fueled, sleep-deprived hacks, think again. Buster Olney, who covers the Yankees for The New York Times and whose job is illuminatingly examined this week on PBS's journalism series Media Matters (check local listings), is no hack. Says a colleague, "He gets here first, leaves last and writes the best." The shots of reporters working a locker room will remind you of an African watering hole scene from a Wild Kingdom episode—only with more scavengers.