Jackals and their prey
An open letter to the media:
He tried to keep his private life private after the one-car accident with no charges. You wouldn't allow this and said he had to make a statement, which he did. You said that wasn't enough, that he had to issue an apology, which he did. You said that wasn't enough. Now, he's withdrawn from golf. But that's still not enough. You want him out front, in sack cloth and ashes, groveling, kissing the collective ass of the mob he has rightfully scorned.
You talk of the Woods' team of flaks and handlers. These are necessitated by the invasive hordes of fans and media, who think they own him.
You talk of how Tiger's fortune isn't due to his golf but to his novelty act of being black in a white man's game, etc. This is only penis envy. You claim Tiger owes the media and the public for his fame and fortune. This self-serving sanctimony is the opposite of the truth. Every dollar Tiger has earned you of the media have made many times over in advertising, his sponsors in sales, and the fans in entertainment. It's you who owe him!
You are letting go not because Woods owes you or the public anything, but because your meters tell you that the Woods story still generates millions of clicks daily; and so you will milk the story, harassing and exploiting this unfortunate man and his family as long as they serve your cynical purpose.
You claim that your trade is in decline because of evolving technology. You are only partly right. You are in terminal decline because as a breed you are preening, arrogant, narcissistic, hypocritical scum-sucking bastards, whom the public no longer have to put up with, in order to access the news.
Yes, it is personal. We despise you as people. As you love to ask your targets, How does it feel? That's a rhetorical question. We're really not interested how you feel.
