LEAVE TIGER ALONE : a plea to THE MEDIA

It is laughable that I have even chosen to write about such a thing as THE MEDIA actually ignoring a story about a famous person who did something that is usually reserved for the less perfect amongst us.

Are you like me ? Do you think we ought not be spreading gossip about a person and trying to use this distorted information to cast judgment at the most and sordid speculation at the least ?

So, Tiger Woods ran his car into a tree or something, and it is rumored that his wife was swinging a golf club ( what else ? ) at the scene, and it's the stuff the tabloids are made of.

Consider: You have a disturbance of some kind at your residence where you live in privacy behind those things called walls. You even have some walls outside your home, because this is the level of privacy that you have chosen to have. This disturbance, only called that because it is briefly in the public, but still quite near to where the private area is, is this commotion really a whole lot of people's business ?

Perhaps there was a traffic law broken. It falls to the hands of the police to investigate that area of interest. But who in the hell finds this of such importance that it stands side-by-side with evening news stories about war, corruption, and a health care system that just might need a kind of big overhaul ?

To me it is ludicrous. I have had some disturbances at my private residence. They may have been good sounding to the people they disturbed, or they have been open to speculation, and perhaps it seemed like something may have been amiss. It did not fall to my neighbors to judge, and in fact, I believe they did not.

Would you give you neighbor a break ? Last year, my next door neighbor, a good tenth of a mile away, had a very loud and obnoxious party. I am sure they had heard us weeks before when we too had a similar loud and obnoxious party. At their party, there came a time when it sound as though there may have been a "disturbance". Screw it, it's their damned business !

Well ... what gives people such a thrill out of seeing something bad happen to someone else, and it isn't enough to just hear about it, it has to be a major news story and fodder for the rooting pigs of THE MEDIA and their drooling, snail-slime trail of "GOTCHA" or whatever they call that game they play.

Seriously. I am disappointed, as usual, in THE MEDIA. It is past time that people realize that these newspapers and radio-shows and the TEE VEE are in the control of something bigger than the 220 million of us.

Do yourself a favor and get your news off the internet and cross-check the info you think you may have encountered but you want to make sure before you start drooling on the TEE VEE remote.

Thumbs down again to the crying baby, THE MEDIA, who needs to suckle at the breast of something that is none of their freaking business.