HERE WE GO, AGAIN!

By the time you read this, Tiger, or is that Cheetah Woods is coming out to talk. Just when we buried Michael Jackson and the never-ending news coverage of his death (they now cover his doctor, and next month his fish monger), Tiger decided to feed the frenzy.

There are people that I don’t know: who might have died on my block, maybe cheated on their wife or husband this week, and have not received media attention, for good reason. They have privacy, no one really cares, and/or it is none of our business. Why do we need the coverage of Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods or any celebrity that goes astray? I can see attention to politicians, we elect because we feel they are morally on high ground. Except for Ted Kennedy, they don’t get re-elected anyway, and that we should know.

But think about this: the children of those people are the ones that pay a high price for our insatiable need to titillate ourselves, and seek even more non-relevant news to our pathetic lives. The mates of these people are suffering the loss of a loved one, or the embarrassment of infidelity by their spouse, and we revel in their agony?

Now if someone does cheat who is a celebrity, I’m not saying don’t mention it. Don’t drown me in it! That is the message. If there is infidelity, again, isn’t the pain of that bad enough? Do we need to drag the poor wife or husband in the mud, and do so: prolonged?

How come no one asks about the people that perform miracles every day of the year, those that go into Haiti and help the poor people try to piece their poor lives together? Where is the coverage of the money sent to the poor, and the turnaround in their lives made by the contributions of the ordinary guys?

I really hope this Tiger Woods coverage is brief.