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Why hunt bugs when there are lots of elephants? (Editor''s Notebook).

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-JAN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 940 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Why hunt bugs when there are lots of elephants? (Editor''s Notebook).(comments about the Super Bowl )(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Having a Super Bowl in town tends to bring out the best in people, and last week was no exception.

It was great for the area to have the focus of the entire football-loving world fixed on warm, beautiful San Diego.

That's why it was odd to see a front-page story in the San Diego Union-Tribune on Jan. 21 proclaiming that "Public officials offered tickets for face value." This 42-column-inch, 40-paragraph, would-be expose (including two large charts) made two points:

* That dozens of public officials were offered (and purchased) Super Bowl tickets at the face price of $400 and $500 each rather than the $1,400 to $7,500 price the same tickets are being sold for on the Internet; and,

* That there is something wrong with many of our local public officials attending the Big Game.

Maybe I'm a...

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