Hey, I’ll admit I couldn’t pick Charles Warren out of a lineup, but if you don’t recognize Ben Crane you don’t have the knowledge of the subject to be reporting on golf, much less attributing quotes to poeple you clearly can’t identify! If all true, this is journalism at it’s truly worst. How about a quick image search to verify that you were actually speaking to the people you quoted? Shoddy reporting at very best. BTW, strke that opening comment. In the time it took to dash off this post, I found a complete bio on Warren with photo online!

I couldn’t pick Warren or Crane out of a lineup but I knew the later’s PGA tour record.

This won’t be swept under the rug(This is t he 21st century, we use vacuum cleaners) but will be soon forgotten as the Woods saga continues its merry way.

“will be soon forgotten as the Woods saga continues its merry way.”

Hopefully so, for the sake of the maligned and misquoted parties.

We pronounce that “yay-hoo” here in Texas! Has it’s own negative implications, as you might suspect

When those are over, I will be putting up a post that won’t paint Ryan or some golf bloggers in a very flattering light. Ryan didn’t get suckered on the crane story, he just continued what he has been practicing since the Woods story broke. Print first, verify later if ever.

Seems fair to me – if they are going to employ people like this who embarrass their magazine – and they are going to participate in the public humiliation of Tiger Woods – then they need to fess up to their lack of journalistic integrity as well.

is gossip, some of it is news. You can decide what is and what isn’t, based on your own personal preferences….but the fact that so many people (tw.com 400,000 hits) are talking about it, and so many news outlets are reporting it, I believe makes it news. My preference.

You continue to denigrate the media and the public for their interest in this story, and have posited more than once that there is no basis for anyone other than Tiger’s sponsors to delve into his personal business. We had this discussion about privacy and newsworthiness a couple of days ago, when you made this statement..

 “you brought up LEGAL precedents, then got into "right to privacy" (which technically doesn’t exist past the point of government intervention into your privacy). The only people with legal "rights" to dig into Tiger are his endorsers who were given that right by contract.”

This is the crux of the matter… What you think is newsworthy doesn’t count for anything except what you choose to read or not!
The following is legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com:

invasion of privacy n. the intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause, which can give the person whose privacy has been invaded a right to bring a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity that intruded. However, public personages are not protected in most situations, since they have placed themselves already within the public eye, and their activities (even personal and sometimes intimate) are considered newsworthy, i.e. of legitimate public interest. However, an otherwise non-public individual has a right to privacy from: 1) intrusion on one’s solitude or into one’s private affairs; 2) public disclosure of embarrassing private information; 3) publicity which puts him/her in a false light to the public; 4) appropriation of one’s name or picture for personal or commercial advantage.

In short, despite your unknowledgeable assertion, there is a basic right to privacy, but for a “public personage” who trades on fame and their image, any and indeed almost ALL of their private life is defineably newsworthy because they “placed themselves within the public eye”, making their personal life “i.e. of legitimate public interest”! The 400,000 hits didn’t make this news, Tiger did!!!!!!!!!

court, over the short time I’ve been posting here, I can honestly say I have learned to like you. One of the things I admire about you is your unwavering humanity, which is really on display in your last post. I believe that you feel Tiger’s pain, and your post gave me a moment’s pause to do so myself. Unfortunately, Tiger brought this on himself, knowing full well the rules of the game. And if it were not for the fact that it’s a baker’s dozen and counting instead of one or two, this thing would be well on the way to being over. I feel Tiger, but I just can’t get there from where I am. Hope you can understand.

MSNBC says Tiger has announced he’s quitting gol indefinitely? Gut reaction? Good decision!! If he applies his legendary work ethic, attention to detal, tenacity, and commitment to excellence to his personal life, he’ll be back playing in no time. Good for him.