Media Just As Reprehensible In Tiger Woods Saga

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Published: February 19, 2010

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As I'm sure everybody knows by now in this age of instantaneous communications, Tiger Woods has addressed the media for the first time since his November 27 car accident. Over the course of the 15-minute apology, he addressed his wrongdoings, admitted to being in therapy, and left open the door for a return to golf within the year.

"Every one of you has reason to be critical of me," Woods told the crowd at the beginning of his statement. But Woods' own criticism, that of the media and the way it has handled this story, is just as potent.

According to Woods, the media has "staked out" his wife, Elin Nordegren, and "pursued" his mother. Worst of all, he told the world of how paparazzi followed his daughter, age two and a half, to school, and released the address of the school publicly.

He then firmly asked the media, "Leave my family alone."

Certainly, what Tiger Woods did was reprehensible. Nobody debates or doubts that. But that does not give the media the right to act similarly.

I am going to school for journalism. It is what I want to do with my life. But I also like to think I maintain a shred of integrity. I like to think that I do not impose myself on people, or cross boundaries that should not be crossed, or put people in compromising situations. Obviously they haven't taught those sort of ethics in journalism classes for a while now.

It's bad enough that paparazzi speculation led to this whole mess. Certainly, there was a secret that was going to come out anyway, and at first they did their jobs — they exposed corruption and exacerbated his admission of infidelity. Good for them. That's what journalism is designed to do — hold people in power accountable for their actions.

But there is a line between what people deserve to know and what is nobody's business, and the media has crossed it more than once over the past three months.

Of course, the big story that ev...
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