With all the hoopla surrounding Tiger Woods and his car crash lately is quite a bit excessive. For those that are blessed enough to not be familiar with the story, it's pretty basic: Superstar golf player had a car accident.
That's it. That's all there is to the story. Yet the news media is spending 13 of their 24 hours in the day the past few days to talk about Tiger's accident as if there is something sinister going on. It's pretty much sickening.
Why should they spend so much time talking about a random car accident? They say because he's a billion dollar industry in and of himself and that makes it newsworthy. Ok, I'll give you that. That he had an accident is newsworthy. But why then have we spent the past 4 days listening to endless dissection of the wreck? Well, according to the media outlets, it's becasr Tiger refuses to talk about it and e so doing makes it seem like there's something terrible and demonic going on that he's hiding.
Maybe, just maybe, Tiger is embarrassed by his wreck. Maybe he's hurt and doesn't want to be seen in public while injured (which would hurt that precious industry the media is so obsessed with). Maybe he's just an individual that prefers to keep business and public image just that, while leaving private affairs to himself. None of that, however, is newsworthy in the least.
I could care less why the accident occured. Is it weird that he doesn't want to talk to police about it? I have no clue, to be honest and I don't care. He doesn't have to talk to police about it. By law he can say he doesn't want to, which is what he has done.
Is it such a slow news cycle that our news organizations need to spend hours upon hours analyzing the actions of a man that fall completely within the borders of legality? Or are they just so obsessed with this story because they think they've found something about this black man that can give them an excuse to crucify him? Maybe's South Park's "Mr. Jefferson" episode was more accurate than we want to believe.
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