Showing posts with label Persona non Tiger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Persona non Tiger. Show all posts

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Once again, sports reporters eager to avoid angering Tiger Woods and becoming 'Persona non Tiger'

My comments follow this latest update from TMZ.
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TMZ.com
Tiger Woods Cornered -- Turns Cops Away
http://www.tmz.com/2009/11/28/tiger-woods-elin-nordegren-florida-highway-patrol/

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Well, what do you know?
Maybe
ESPN's Sunday morning edition of
The Sports Reporters will actually be
interesting
and relevant for the first time in
what seems like
ages, as the Usual Suspects
of sports sages
weigh-in, gingerly, on what's
happened the past
few days on the golf icon
and guaranteed
moneymaker named
Tiger Woods.

Personally, though I know it will
never
happen,
I'd love to hear them be
straight-shooters for
a change and publicly
call-out their more
spine-less and craven
colleagues in the sports
and marketing
industry, esp. at the TV networks,
who
walk on eggshells when speaking about

Tiger Woods, someone whom I've yet
to ever
hear an original and thoughtful
comment from,
just like fellow Nike
spokesperson
Michael Jordan,
even though he has the benefit of a
Stanford education.

(Not that a Stanford education really did devout
Oriole fans like me any good in the '90's while
Mike Mussina was pitching for the Orioles,

despite how frequently it got brought-up during
ballgame broadcasts, much to our consternation.

A lot of my friends and I still blame Mussina for
not winning Game 3 of the 1996 ALCS against
the Yankees at Camden Yards -I was there-
blowing a 1-0 lead in the eighth inning, with a
dominating David Wells slated to pitch for the
Orioles the next day, which could've plausibly
created a 3-1 Oriole series lead.

His choking performance prevented the Orioles
from getting to the World Series and beating
the Atlanta Braves, when the O's were clearly
the best-balanced team in baseball that year
-despite being the AL Wild Card team- having
thoroughly annihilated the Braves in Atlanta
during an intra-league weekend series.)


Which is fine, of course, since Woods
doesn't
have to be interesting off the course,
or even
take a public stand about any issues
he privately
cares about, as long as he keeps
winning.

But it would be nice if he would...

How interesting would it be if he declared
publicly
in the near-future that, as a matter
of fact, he's
greatly troubled by the whole
'immigration reform'
racket in this country,
including the basic concepts
behind the
so-called "
Dream Act."

That he was particularly dismayed at the

overwhelmingly sympathetic and one-sided
way
the American news media have
portrayed the debate, having
been played,
hook, line and sinker, by someone
like
Cheryl Little of the Florida Immigrant
Advocacy
Center,
http://www.fiacfla.org/staff.php#1

who seems to promise access to her clients
in exchange for favorable media coverage.

(So where are the on-camera questions
about -or interviews with- the parents
who
came here illegally or who knowingly
broke the law and have successfully
avoided deportation for YEARS?

Not on camera, that's for sure because
that'd be off -message, don't ya know.
So who's the most recent example I've
seen of a local Miami TV reporter playing
Cheryl Little's game of Show-and-Tell?
CBS4's David Sutta, who did one on
Nov. 20th after CBS4 did a story the
previous day on the same kids attending
Miami-Dade College.
"Reyes Bros. Freed After Immigration
Struggle
."
http://cbs4.com/video/?id=86995@wfor.dayport.com)

If
Woods actually said that he thinks this sort
of
upside-down proposal penalizes hard-working
foreigners who have followed the proscribed
rules
and laws we've insisted they follow, and
patiently
bided their time waiting anxiously for
legal admittance,
while others have come to
this country either illegally,
or intentionally
overstayed their visas, and now want
to create
a
cause cรฉlรจbre just because their kids aren't
dopes
and actually paid attention in American
schools, just imagine what people would be
saying?

It'll never happen, of course, but...
Personally, I suspect this latest incident in
Orlando, whatever the true facts, will only
show once gain the full extent to which the
news media, in this case, well-known sports
reporters and columnists -like certain
well-known political
reporters and
columnists last year were (and remain)
completely
in the tank for Obama-
have drunk the Tiger Woods marketing
Kool-Aid, and have deluded themselves
into thinking that , a la O.J., that they
'really know him.'

They don't.

They just think they do.

What those particular reporters fear most
is losing access to him
and his tightly-knit
entourage and being put permanently
on
his "No comment" list.

That's the same thing as excommunication,
since it will
quickly become known throughout
the industry.
And they will be labeled 'Persona non Tiger.'