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Its News 7 10.94%
Its Non-News (leave it to TMZ) 57 89.06%
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Old 12-02-2009, 01:09 AM
 
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or should this stuff be left for TMZ, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight?
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Old 12-02-2009, 01:25 AM
 
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I change the channel the minute his name is mentioned. Domestic dispute, did the guy thing and tore off in his car, wrecked, the rest is none of our busness.
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Old 12-02-2009, 01:26 AM
 
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I should have wrote none of it is our business or has any impact on our lives.
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Old 12-02-2009, 01:50 AM
 
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I should have wrote none of it is our business or has any impact on our lives.
When any athlete breaks wind it seems to be news. In the late 1940's a corporate executive earned about 50 times what an employee on the assembly line earned. Now...thanks to wealthy athletes many of wnom have trouble pronouncing their names and are good for three "You Knows" per sentence, corporate exectuve officers earn about 350 times what an assembly line worker earns. Those with the money and power will always figure a way to stay up with or ahead of the stupid people in our society no matter what their talent or gift happens to be. Tiger has become a billionaire in less than twenty years because he has a smooth golf swing.
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Old 12-02-2009, 03:48 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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It was just something else for overpaid talking heads to blabber about for hours on end.
They have to disect, editorialize, and enhance anything that has anything to do with anyone that has a little popularity.
Then they got to bring a 548 member panel of experts to all try to talk at the same time about something that don't mean a damn thing to anyone other than the person involved.
I don't care about anybodys private life as long as they aren't committing a crime that hurts others.
We never get the the true facts anyway. Just a coverup story from people with enough money to pay for hiding the facts.
In my opinion this was a domestic fight. The window in the vehicle was probably broken by his old lady swinging at it in anger, not to get him out.
Why would he lose control pulling out of a driveway he had exited hundreds of times fast enough to lose control of the vehicle. He was either very PO'd or trying to get away from something.
What the national media is reporting doesn't make any sense. And if it dont make any sense it probably aint true.
Cnn, Fox, Msnbc, are all very good at beating dead horses and trying to make news instead of reporting it. I pretty much stopped watching national newcasts during the presidential campaign.
I just watch local news for my area. If anything important nationally is going on they can only give it a couple minutes instead of shoving it down our throats for hours unless it is somekind of national emergency.
And Tiger's little accident and domestic problems damn sure aint no national emergency.
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Old 12-02-2009, 03:53 AM
 
Location: Sango, TN
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I believe its not a news story, however, it is the second biggest search on Google so far today. It was number 1 yesterday.

So, I guess some people deem it news worthy
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Old 12-02-2009, 03:54 AM
 
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It was just something else for overpaid talking heads to blabber about for hours on end.
They have to disect, editorialize, and enhance anything that has anything to do with anyone that has a little popularity.
Then they got to bring a 548 member panel of experts to all try to talk at the same time about something that don't mean a damn thing to anyone other than the person involved.
I don't care about anybodys private life as long as they aren't committing a crime that hurts others.
We never get the the true facts anyway. Just a coverup story from people with enough money to pay for hiding the facts.
In my opinion this was a domestic fight. The window in the vehicle was probably broken by his old lady swinging at it in anger, not to get him out.
Why would he lose control pulling out of a driveway he had exited hundreds of times fast enough to lose control of the vehicle. He was either very PO'd or trying to get away from something.
What the national media is reporting doesn't make any sense. And if it dont make any sense it probably aint true.
Cnn, Fox, Msnbc, are all very good at beating dead horses and trying to make news instead of reporting it. I pretty much stopped watching national newcasts during the presidential campaign.
I just watch local news for my area. If anything important nationally is going on they can only give it a couple minutes instead of shoving it down our throats for hours unless it is somekind of national emergency.
And Tiger's little accident and domestic problems damn sure aint no national emergency.
wouldn't it be interesting if the media spent as much time investigating, dissecting, and analyzing the events that actually affect the american citizens?

the media seems to be like a child that is diverted every time it sees a bright shiny penny on the ground. they could be discussing the war and then another balloon boy story would come up, and off we go......
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Old 12-02-2009, 05:25 AM
 
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or should this stuff be left for TMZ, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight?
New icing for the cake. Now one of the rags is claiming that two years ago it discovered a Tiger affair and that in order to keep it quiet Tiger agreed to do a cover story layout for a sister publication...which he did.
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Old 12-02-2009, 05:30 AM
 
Location: Tampa Florida
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I don't recall when I got a ticket for driving without my seatbelt on, that there was any media coverage of that. Clearly the news channels missed out on a good story.
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Old 12-02-2009, 05:41 AM
 
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I considered it news when I heard he wrecked, it stopped being news the minute they said he was ok..
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