WHY THIS MATTERS:So far, CBS and Turner's coverage of March Madness is the second-most watched in 23 years with an average viewership of 10.4 million viewers.
Journalists are trained, or at least I think they are (I am an English major and can recite some poetry), to believe almost nothing that is pitched as news on April 1. Want to bury a bad financial report or corporate scandal? Give it a clever headline and an April 1 release date and fire away.