No, not Tigers, but Tiger, as in, Woods. A couple of months ago, you could not avoid it. CNN, TMZ, ESPN, Univision - everyone had every detail of Tiger's fall from grace. Now - crickets. Could it be that people are actually giving him and his family their space and privacy? Or is it just that there isn't anything new to report, and 24-7 coverage of Tiger-Gate 2009-2010 ran its course after 6 months or so?
I don't condone what he allegedly did. I've known enough serial monogamists (not to be confused with CEREAL monogamists - I'LL LOVE YOU FOREVER, CHEERIOS!) to know that there is enough blame to go around, but Tiger does sound like he was the supreme dirt bag if even 5% of the rumors are true. But still - the guy is human, and no one deserves to have their dirty laundry dragged through the streets of the world. At least records of infidelity from 20+ years ago would require some work to find these days - now, once someone clicks "publish" or "post" or "tweet" it is there forever. And when Tiger's kids and grandkids Google/Bing/Yahoo/Altavista (it's going to make a come back, these things are cyclical) his name, they'll find out everything they wanted to know and much much more. So, I hope that humanity is actually giving him a break and letting him deal with his issues in private.
But all bets are off on the next slow news day...
3 comments:
I'm pretty sure it's just that the 24-hour news cycle has moved on to something else. The news is now 'infotainment' and the Tiger sex scandal story got boring, so it's no longer news.
I have to disagree with the 'we should give him his privacy' thing. Tiger reaped *enormous* rewards from being a celebrity. And the moment he faced one of the downsides of fame, suddenly he deserves to be treated like Joe Shmo? The price he pays is that he loses some of that and allure (and a lot of those contracts). And his reputation will now be tarnished, including with his grandkids. That's the punishment for this crime.
By the way, where were the Procarets in this post?
There was an extraneous 'and' between 'that' and 'allure' in the previous post.
I think I was just impressed that the 24-hour news cycle lasted 24 weeks for Tiger. It probably helped that he never let anyone into his private life, and then all of a sudden a gaping hole was ripped open, revealing everything. I know athletes reap great rewards from their fame, and the cost is that they are in the spotlight and held accountable to a higher degree than Joe Shmo, but at a fundamental level, they are still human and deserving of some consideration. It's the whole paparazzi thing - there are lines people cross, but by the time people even get to the level of fame to have that line be an issue, we feel they have gotten enough benefit that they deserve what's coming to them. I guess you can't make everyone happy all the time^.
^ Happy?
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