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| Tiger Woods' apology: Mea Culpa, |
| Tiger Woods' apology: Mea Culpa, at arm's length
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 22-February-2010
4:34:5 AM |
| Long before his public image became as badly dented as the Cadillac Escalade he was driving on Thanksgiving weekend, Tiger Woods wondered aloud about the appetite of the media.
"Why do they have to know everything?" he asked Jaime Diaz of Golf Digest. At the time, Woods - Tiger - was 14 years old.
So why do we have to know everything? In sports, entertainment and, yes, politics, there is a constant tension between the covered and the coverers. Athletes and actors would like for us to focus on the work, while reporters know that their editors and audience want more, because while the work is visible, we want our celebrities to show a little leg.
Arrogant and able to back it up, Woods was never destined to have a great relationship with the press - more Sean Penn than George Clooney. Some wear fame as a loose garment. Woods wore his as a shirt that was a few sizes too small.
Last Friday morning's press conference wasn't the revelation some critics have suggested - just another chapter in Woods' love/hate relationship with the press. Yet even as he offered up another public apology, it became apparent that, on the course and off, Tiger Rules still prevailed.
In his speech, Woods spoke directly about how entitlement had led him to make horrible decisions. But part of the reason he lived his life so recklessly was that he froze out any reporter or media organization that went off-message
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