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Who all is tired of the Tiger Woods crash thing?

Tiger Who? Really if the media didn't tell us this is important it wouldn't be important, if fact personally I could care less. If this is what the media thinks that people need to know then they should be ashamed of themselves. There are so many more important things happening in the world than the Tiger Woods soap opera. Just my 2 cents.
 
I do not care about Tiger's personal life. This gossip makes me sick. I bet that the same people reporting this stupid gossip are even worst that Tiger in their PRIVATE life.
 
Beyond the apparent "public right to know" that has evolved in our culture, there is also a public expectation of an "apology" for something that's none of our business to begin with. At least he didn't schlep his wife out on the public stage for the apology like all the friggin' politicians do.
 
finnbow said:
Beyond the apparent "public right to know" that has evolved in our culture, there is also a public expectation of an "apology" for something that's none of our business to begin with. At least he didn't schlep his wife out on the public stage for the apology like all the friggin' politicians do.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
My question is why didn't Channel 4 news @ 6 realize this horse had already been beaten to death by Access Hollywood and every other celebrity gossip show? I feel like actual "news" channels have all turned into "Entertainment Tonight". Pretty incredibly stupid.
 
He has made millions of dollars by putting himself in the public eye. Why should we close that eye when it's not making him money?

If he was just a golfer, I wouldn't think we had a right. But he puts himself out there, through endorsements, as some sort of authority figure on what we should do with our money, and thus our lives.

Nobody put a gun to his head and said "do all these commercials so that even people who don't follow golf know and recognize you when you cheat on your wife." People love a trainwreck, especially when the train was put out there as being perfect.

I still don't think it should be on the news...but entertainment tonight? Why not.
 
I know where you're coming from John, and if he had committed a crime with a penalty greater than a moving violation fine, I'd agree. But as long as his personal domestic issues do not constitute a crime, they are not the public's business.

Personally I don't make a habit of putting human beings up on pedestals. In my experience that's a recipe for disappointment. For all his athletic prowess, he's just a man, pretty much the same as any other. If this wasn't Tiger Woods, it wouldn't be news at all, and there's the dividing line for me. It is unfair for the media to insert themselves into anyone's life the way they have here, for no more cause than they have in this case. If this had happened to anyone, I would be saying the same thing. He has just as much (and no more) right to privacy as any other citizen.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, that just because he makes his living in the public eye, he shouldn't have to forfeit the rights of privacy that all of us should share in.
 
finnbow said:
... At least he didn't schlep his wife out on the public stage for the apology like all the friggin' politicians do.
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You mean other than (apparently/allegedly) offering her a multi-million dollar incentive to stay in the relationship?

Not that I really care one way or the other, but seems to me that's not entirely different...mebbe worse. :scratch2:
 
finnbow said:
Beyond the apparent "public right to know" that has evolved in our culture, there is also a public expectation of an "apology" for something that's none of our business to begin with. At least he didn't schlep his wife out on the public stage for the apology like all the friggin' politicians do.
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I believe Kobe did that exact thing as well.... and gave her a big Friggen ROCK!
 
I went to turn on my HT Projector (which acts as my TV) last night, and nothing. Dead as a doorstop. I believe it must be sick of TW, too! And I didn't even watch any of the coverage.
 
IMO, people whose professional lives are in the public eye are offering up their professional lives to public scrutiny, but not their private lives. Now, those individuals who put there private lives on public display (i.e. Brittany Spears, Lindsey Lohan, Tommy Lee, Amy Winehouse etc.) are thereby subjecting their private lives to public scrutiny. I do not believe that Tiger or many other celebrities deserve to have their private lives chased, investigated and interrupted by paparazzi (sp?) or media just because their profession is a public one.
 
fotno said:
I know where you're coming from John, and if he had committed a crime with a penalty greater than a moving violation fine, I'd agree. But as long as his personal domestic issues do not constitute a crime, they are not the public's business.

Personally I don't make a habit of putting human beings up on pedestals. In my experience that's a recipe for disappointment. For all his athletic prowess, he's just a man, pretty much the same as any other. If this wasn't Tiger Woods, it wouldn't be news at all, and there's the dividing line for me. It is unfair for the media to insert themselves into anyone's life the way they have here, for no more cause than they have in this case. If this had happened to anyone, I would be saying the same thing. He has just as much (and no more) right to privacy as any other citizen.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, that just because he makes his living in the public eye, he shouldn't have to forfeit the rights of privacy that all of us should share in.
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Fotno I agree with you about it being a bad idea to put folks on a pedestal. A set up to be disappointed to be sure.

Respectfully I disagree with the privacy thing. One of the realities of celebrity is being in the public eye, and all the benefits associated with that. Fame, popularity, influence, and money. Of course one of the negatives is that the public eye is there all the time. If the person is a big deal, then they're a big deal whether good or bad. The attention isn't just gonna' magically stop.

I'll add that I think it is unrealistic, and maybe even a bit arrogant for Tiger to be whining about the publicity thing now. Didn't bother him before, right ? He should just shut up, man up, and take the licks. The media will be on to the next "big story" soon enough.

On another note I've seen some comments about the "human" thing and how what he did was "minor". Well.... ok. But flip it around a bit..... for those who posted those comments, if it was their spouse or SO who was cheating on them for 31 months, or their son in law cheating on their daughter... well. I think they'd be singing a different tune entirely.:yes:
 
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ah, I am blessed to have never cared about mr woods. in fact, I've always thought his curling game was sub par.
 
A Swedish model chasing one of the most popular sports stars with one of his own golf clubs, smashing out his back window, causing him to crash whereupon a cocktail waitress spills out of the back seat (metaphorically)...

C'mon, how is that not going to be talked about to the point of over saturation. That's just classic.
 
Who all is tired of the Tiger Woods crash thing? Not me. I love this story. We like our heroes in this country, but we also get cruel glee watching them fall to earth.
 
From an article by Michael Wilbon in today's WashPost.

"Comedian Chris Rock undoubtedly put it best when he said, "A man is only as faithful as his options." And few men have the sexual options of the most famous athletes in the world. Even if we confine the conversation to the most famous American athletes of their times, we're still talking about a list that has to include Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady and Alex Rodriguez.

Whispers and innuendo followed Ruth and Louis. TMZ and US Magazine stalk Tiger Woods."

Indeed.
 
This thread called "Who all is tired of the Tiger Woods crash thing?" and it goes for 6 pages already. Guess nobody got tired yet. Ironic, isn't it?
 
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