There's more money and less intellectual effort in Judging, vilifying and diminishing Tiger Woods than in providing the public a lens to understand him and a sports world / culture that long ago was Perverted by television's money and fame.
It takes no courage or thought Thurs recognize Tiger's personal failure. They, as far as we know, shamed his wife and family. We can assume Tiger's Swedish wife adopted our American value of marriage Strict Monogamy, and she is mortified and shocked that her Ridiculously famous, handsome, Billionaire husband gave in to the temptation of road beef.
Yes, Assumption is the platform from Which all Insightful ideas, opinions and perspective are based.
Armed with the supposition that this brown-skinned golfer has been irreversibly harmed an attractive, blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman, much of the sports media have turned Elin Nordegren into Natalee Holloway and reached for ratings and relevancy by traveling the route paved by Nancy Grace.
There is, believe it or not, another direction to explore. There is another reality we can reluctantly accept. If we choose, we, the media, can do our job and put Tiger's transgressions in their proper context and explain to the public what happened to the perceived traditional ideals of the sports world.
The high-character values and morality we've ascribed to the male and female athletes who entertain us were a myth in the 20th century and a flat-out Impossibility now.
When television took control of sports 40 years ago, athletes became America's first reality TV stars and no different from daytime soap opera stars.
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