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Bill Maher gets my vote…What’s up with the Media Vultures? December 2, 2009

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December 2, 2009, while reading the “Huffington Post.com”, I was taken aback by the number of times stories about Tiger Woods appeared.   Let’s see, there was a story about him on the front page entitled “Tiger Woods Alleged Sex Tapes Released.”  Than there was some text that read “More Affairs Reported” highlighted in red.  Underneath that line, Dave Zirin weighed mind you in bold blue print “Tiger Woods Deserves Your Scrutiny.”  Than I wandered over to the section entitled Most Popular on the Huffington Post, and there were three more stories about Tiger Woods. 

Okay, here’s my take.  Tiger Woods seems to be a pretty cool guy at least on the surface.  I certainly appreciate his athleticism, his historical contribution to golf, and I’m relieved he wasn’t severely injured as a result of his accident, but I honestly don’t care that he left his house at 2:23 am without shoes.  Clearly, something went wrong after the turkey was served, but who has time to care? Why would any media outlet devote the majority of their website or newspaper to Tiger Woods and his alleged extra marital affairs?  I think Bill Maher said it best, “what a bunch of vultures the media are. Who has not left their house at 2:30 in the morning and crashed into their neighbor’s mailbox?”

No body asked, but here’s my opinion—the President of the United States just ordered 30,000 men and women to be deployed to Afghanistan.  On good faith and with the best of intentions, he said we’d pull out of that country in 18 months, but who really knows?  After all, who can prognosticate the end of a war? 

So, while I and most people seem to appreciate a little gossip every now and then, maybe its time for us to reprioritize how, what, and to whom we direct our attention.  Really, who should get more attention Tiger Woods or the war? In the end, I guess it all depends on who’s selling or telling the story?

Anyway, maybe it’s time to put Tiger to rest, or maybe back on the cereal box.  Instead of eight stories about Tiger, it might just behoove Huffington Post.com and other media hacks to start dialoging a little more about the  men and women facing deployment in January 2010—less than 30 days away, something we should all care about.