How the Media Takes Advantage of People like Tiger Woods

I try not to to read what's going on with Tiger Woods, but from just reading the headlines and getting information from that invisible ether of information all around us, I found out that he was in a car accident and and he didn't want to talk about it.

Ok, I thought. A man crashes into a tree. Shockingly he does not want to play in his own golf tournament. After, like I said, crashing into the tree. But he's ok, though, so that's good right?

No, not good enough. So legally in the state of Florida I guess you can decline an investigation into an accident if certain criteria are met, and he met the criteria. But even though he had his right to privacy like anyone else (and see this is my getting angry about it), people began to get suspicious.

I hope I never see the day where I can get into an accident that I don't have to deal with except own my own, and suddenly a lot of people are interested in it.

So then, just from reading the headlines, I assume he is having an affair with...someone. The titles just call it "indiscretions". Which in the world of politics, the famous, and the wealthy, is just a polite way of saying he was bangin' someone else.

And according to Yahoo! Sports: "Bloomberg's Brett Pulley and Michael Buteau did a little digging into Nielsen's television records, and found an interesting statistic: advertisements featuring Tiger Woods have completely vanished from prime-time television since Woods' wreck" by Jay Busbee, who refers to the "mystique of Tiger Woods -- cool under pressure, domination, excellence beyond compare".

Did we really think he was all that. Who can you call, "excellence beyond compare"? It's not that it's hard to live up to the pressure of that, it's that he really isn't in the first place. He is a guy that is very, very good at golf, so good that he captured the attention of the millions and millions of Americans who never think about Golf Otherwise.

And the reason we know he is so very, very good is that a lot of people were and are willing to capitalize on his image. And these people are very, very good at what they do, and the people who capitalize off the capitalization, like the Yahoo! Front Page, and finally vultures like the bloggers who pick the dead carcass of the story clean.

Sorry to get a little graphic there.

And whatever is super popular online is now for some reason super popular on the National News Networks, who show a lot of footage of youtube videos of the day, especially if it involves a little boy adrift in a balloon.

So circling back around to my anger at the stories, it's just a way of a lot of people trying to make a little or a lot of money at other people's expense.

Thank you for reading, and please do not leave any comments about me being a socialist. I am not.