Tiger Woods in Car Accident

I mean...OK, but I just don't see how anyone is going to get that information. Only way is to get it from the horse's mouth, and you know that ain't happening. No use complaining about "real news" vs. tabloid stuff when the real news you seek just ain't coming.

My advice would be to turn off the TV when the tabloid news you hate so much comes on. Or don't pick up a paper.

Not sure what else to tell you.

 

Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Sam Sheppard, and Princess Grace have climbed into their time machine to agree with you.

 

But then I wouldn't have anything to argue about here. ;D

 

With all the good stuff coming from this story? Pfft. You got plenty!!

 

What's all this about privacy for Tiger, anyway? Are people breaching the walls of his estate? Climbing in the windows? Watching him undress? What? As has been said before, what he really wants is to direct his coverage. There's a big surprise.

If Tiger could choose between A.) Never having his name mentioned in a newspaper, TV show, magazine, radio broadcast, web posting ever again until the day he dies, or B.) taking his lumps here until things return back the way they were before in a few weeks/months, is there any doubt which option he'd choose?

 

If Tiger had taken a good dose of STFU, this wouldn't be a story today.

 

sfw

 

My opinion on your specific question, which to me is a pretty big, important question on the nature of responsibility (and, to some extent how timing works, as you wrote) is bigger than this thread. As I'll bet, are your opinions.

But this story is so evident and obvious, 21. You have a car crash - a highly dubious one. You have a trip to the hospital. The world's most famous athlete hiding behind lawyers so he doesn't have to speak to the cops about a routine matter - which, if it were a regular citizen, simply wouldn't wash. Cops would bulldoze right over that person. You have low-rent mistresses in Vegas and LA. You have a voicemail. And I still hearing, six days later, about Tiger's sacred privacy because he was arrogant and imperious enough to actually think his catting around and getting the shit beaten out of him was not a story. I see and read a lot hand-wringing because nobody in the mainstream media wants to tackle the story; mostly they talk for six hours about it, and mostly in the affirmative for Tiger's wishes.

We're talking about this one scenario - the cat's out of the bag, nothing left to hide, no repercussions left to fear, go after the story like a bunch of crazed dogs. I'm not even arguing, per se, that the herd mentality is right. I am arguing that it's total junk to suddenly adopt standards that weren't there to begin with - then cynically lecture the audience on how "men really are" - just because Tiger's a tough mark for your everyday, middle-aged sports journalist. Wilbon has officially steered into Stu Scott territory on this matter, giving us 1,000 words, regurgitating the lessons of 2 Samuel, for goodness sakes. I don't need a primer in adultery, is what I'm saying. And neither does anyone else.

out of, again, what I view is sheer laziness, that's all the major sports networks are providing at the moment, long-winded tomes on "privacy" that merely cloak a "I'm overfed and overpaid, and I don't want to pursue this" menatality.

 

One other thing: I really do think you pose great questions here. I just simply think that navel-gazing at a moment when Kane of professional sports is hiding away from the cops in Songbird is the wrong time to suddenly start hammering out those boundaries.

 

I think that means so fucking what.
Well the point is, this isn't a story in my opinion if he keeps quiet. It would've blown over. IMHO