Tiger Woods - why this much coverage?

[max_tranmere]

I have less than zero interest in this man, and am amazed that things to do with his life are getting this much coverage. I mean, why? Front page of newspapers, very high billing on TV news programmes, etc. On the BBC News this evening we are told that Tiger Woods' mother-in-law has been taken to hospital. So? Do I care? No. How do things like this become so big when previously things about the person's life never got this much coverage? I couldn't care less personally.

[Arginald Valleywater]

I am assuming you are not a sports fan? Woods is by a country mile the biggest sports star on this planet, nobody is close. He earns ?60m a year and has more blue chip sponsors than any athlete in history. Apart from Obama and The Pope he is probably the best known face on the planet.
Thats why. And the fact he has been too goody goody in the past.

[welkram]

I do enjoy golf, both playing and watching but I have NEVER thought that Tiger Woods is a good ambassador for the game, I recall a time when the game was bigger than the players but people like Woods now seem dictate to the game. He might be a great sportsman but he's not a great sport and I for one enjoyed his smug ass going into the grinder.

[Guilbert]

>Apart from Obama and The Pope he is probably the best known face on the planet.

I bet more people on the planet would recognize the Queen than Obama.

And I am not sure I know what the current pope looks like (certainly if I sure him out of his stupid costume and in a suit and tie).

[justincyder]

Beacause he is a ' celebrity ' and in this current world culture of ' must know what a celebrity eats, sleeps, shits, sleeps with ' for the mainly have no fucking life of their own of which there are millions/billions, it is essential viewing.

Like yourself however I couldn't give a crap.

Up the revolution

[birdseed]

People like being self-righteous towards people they're envious of.

[The Last Word]

For some of us it's the first time he's done anything remotely interesting.

[one eyed jack]

Plus its all part of the celebrity obsessed thing the media has going on.

This is the only thing going on outside of Katie Price and Jordan splitting up/ getting back together etc bollocks that drives the media.

Anything to keep the masses from thinking about the real issues that matter.

You said it Max. I likke the internet. I can get to the news that i like. the only thing I know about this thing with Tiger Woods is the golf club to the car the wife issued. i only found out about the other woman through public gossip on the street...(yes I do actually go out occasionally when Im not on 24 hour BGAFD watch)!happy!

Oh and the media love it when they get dirt on those squeaky clean goody two shoes types.

[belfast_birty]

You need to read a good newspaper.There are a number published in UK,that do not follow the celebrity line.

[RoddersUK]

!cool!
Who fucking cares?
The twatt is only a fucking golfer when all is said and done, a good one mind, but still a fucking golfer.
As a billionaire he could sit on his black fucking arse for the rest of his life and do fuckall, and I doubt if the vast majority of people would care fucking less. The only ones pushing this rediculous episode are the American fucking media. Why the fuck our media is taking note is fucking beyond me. But then I am only a poor simple ex squaddie.