I understand that Tiger is news. And him appearing in public for the first time is news. But the seemingly unquenchable thirst for details about his life escapes me. Is that what makes those shows popular? I do know that shows like Inside Edition and the Insider are everything I hate about television all wrapped into one half hour.
I go to the movies and enjoy being entertained but I wouldnt walk across the street to just get a glimpse of Brad Pitt having lunch. Hes a guy; hes an actor, move on! Hes not going to ask me to be his best friend and hes not going to give me money. So all of the questions regarding Tiger seem the same to me.
By the time the parking lot was full on Friday morning there were reporters in Batman costume and strippers holding signs trying to be funny. I always figure if you ignore these people, theyll go away. But clearly somebody is paying attention and regrettably, that style of reporting has crept into what we used to call journalism.

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Doylestown Council voted unanimously tonight to approve an ordinance that would require all sexually oriented businesses in the borough and their employees to be licensed by the borough.
Council President Det Ansinn said the strict ordinance makes the borough “extremely unattractive” to anyone who might want to open a strip club or adult movie theater in the borough.
Anyone who wants to open a sexually oriented business in the borough must provide personal and business information, and pay a $500 licensing fee in the first year and a $200 fee to renew the license in subsequent years. Anyone who wants to work at a sexually oriented business, including cashiers and topless dancers, must pay a $50 licensing fee each year. Individuals convicted of sex crimes will not be eligible to receive licenses.

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Tiger Woods yesterday took his first public steps on Rehabilitation Road. We saw what has been lacking from day one: humanity and humility, live and in person. It doesn’t take much for us to let people move past their sins; we just need something that can trigger our sympathy. That is reputation-restoration rule #1, and yesterday Tiger finally followed it.
From this saga’s beginning, Tiger did everything wrong from a reputation management perspective: he issued multiple, uninformative statements; he refused to talk in person; and he let his mistresses define him and what he did rather than speaking out and defining himself. Most egregiously, he did nothing that gave us any room for sympathy. Had he done early on what he did yesterday, many more of us would have sympathized with him and viewed the porn star, the cocktail waitress, and the prostitute as piling on rather than as telling us the secrets Tiger kept hidden.

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Let’s start with Mel Gibson at number 1, who according to eonline.com, made his apology on “Good Morning America.” The actor sparked outrage following his arrest for DUI, when it was revealed that he had shouted sexist and anti-Semitic remarks at the cops.
Talk show host David Letterman is at number 2, for apologizing to his wife and staff on “The Late Show,” for having the affairs. At number three on the list is Alec Baldwin, who apologized for a vile voicemail he had left on his daughter’s phone, on “The View” talk show.
British actor Hugh Grant is at number 4. He chose to apologize on “The Tonight Show,” for hooking up with a Hollywood prostitute. Kanye West is among the list at number 6, for his apology for the incident that happened at the MTV Video Music Awards.

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Dressed in gray slacks, an over-starched blue shirt and blue blazer, Woods — who refused to take questions — was grim as he spoke to a handpicked group at PGA Headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., just after 11 a.m. The audience included his mom, Kultida, PGA Tour executives, friends, employees and select reporters.
He used the word “I” and its variations nearly 115 times in his speech and referenced several of the traditional 12 steps of rehab, including acceptance of his problems and acknowledging the pain he caused those around him.
“Every one of you has good reason to be critical of me. I want to say to each of you, simply and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in,” he said.
That behavior was a staggering string of affairs with porn stars, prostitutes, a pancake-house hostess and other pretty young things that came to light after the National Enquirer ran a bombshell story in November about his assignations with New York party girl Rachel Uchitel.

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Williams has a reputation for being Woods’ enforcer on the green. He does not tolerate distracting behaviours, going so far as to wrestle a US$7,000 (S$9,800) camera from a fan who clicked a picture of Woods during his backswing and throw it in a pond at one event in 2002.
‘Nothing changes,’ New Zealander Williams told The Sun-Herald newspaper from the Gold Coast in Queensland, where he was on holiday with his family.
‘My job is to give him the best information I can and get him around in the fewest possible strokes. And as I have always pointed out, it is to try and give him a level playing field.
‘I won’t do anything differently. I won’t view him any differently.’
Attitudes towards Woods are already changing. Two employees from a local strip club had to be chased off the property on Friday at the Sawgrass Marriott, where Woods made his televised apology for his ‘irresponsible and selfish behaviour’ as he broke his long silence on the sex scandal that engulfed him last year. — AP

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Remember way back in November when the National Enquirer broke the story about Tiger’s affairs? Well, Friday morning felt like a five-hour long tabloid. Reporters chased anything they could find (sounds like Tiger, doesn’t it?) in Sawgrass. And sadly, I was out there, too. Not the reason why I got in to journalism.
I knew it when the camera guy asked me that question. I knew it when I saw two women with suggestive Tiger signs standing 50 yards from a day care. I knew it when I stopped a woman walking her labrador to get her take on the scene. The only thing missing were a few streakers, guys doing Irish car bombs and Gloria Allred looking for a few more of Tiger’s hookups to represent.
Everything about the Tiger Woods scandal has felt that way, hasn’t it? The car crash. The porn stars. Mistresses falling out of thin air. Stalkerazzi chasing Tiger’s children around for photos. Me trying to interview a 70-year-old woman about Tiger’s trysts with strippers.

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Luke Donald was also struck by how genuine Woods appeared. “I think it was a sincere apology,” he said prior to playing his fellow Englishman Oliver Wilson. “Obviously, he made it very clear that he wants the media to leave his family alone, which I kind of agree with. It seems like he is getting the care and the help that he needs and, hopefully, he’ll be back on tour whenever he’s better.”
There is a strong evangelical element on the PGA Tour and it was inevitable that forgiveness would play a big role in the reaction. Ben Crane spoke for many of the game’s Bible set when urging the public and media to show mercy. “One of the first things that came to my mind is one of my favourite stories in the Bible,” he said. “It’s about a woman who has sinned and been a prostitute and everyone brings her before Jesus and says, ‘Shouldn’t we stone her? Shouldn’t we kill her?’ Jesus says, ‘Absolutely stone her. But you without sin be the one to cast the first stone’.

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For whether it is sport, politics or showbusiness, the presence of the wronged spouse has become a required feature at some point in the celebrity rehabilitation process. Only this week John Terry, the shamed former England football captain, and his wife, Toni, were photographed strolling hand-in-hand through the arrivals lounge at Heathrow fresh from an apparently successful make-it-up holiday in Dubai.
Similar shows of unity were deployed by fellow England teammates Wayne Rooney and David Beckham who clambered back on the media juggernaut with their loyal partners soon after they had faced their own lurid sex allegations.
And Hugh Grant’s notorious encounter with the prostitute Divine Brown did little to stall his meteoric rise to international superstardom, nor that of his then-girlfriend Liz Hurley, who braved the media glare to accompany him to a premiere just weeks after his arrest.

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ICON More Images »  FEBRUARY 19 – Golfer Tiger Woods hugs his mother Kultida Woods after making a statement from the Sunset Room on the second floor of the TPC Sawgrass, home of the PGA Tour in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Woods publicly admitted to cheating on his wife Elin Nordegren but maintained that the issues remain “a matter between a husband and a wife.”Photograph by: Joe Skipper-Pool, Getty Images
NEW YORK â Tiger Woods took his first public swing from the deep rough Friday, reading from a prepared statement to say he was âœdeeply sorryâ for his behaviour, but declining to give details about his infidelity.
âœI was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated,â he said in televised remarks from a podium before a hand-picked audience of about 40 people, who included his mother in the front row â but not his wife Elin.
âœI felt I was entitled . . . I was wrong.â
Woods said he was returning immediately to the therapy he began after the Nov. 26 car accident that opened the floodgates to revelations he slept with more than a dozen women, including porn stars, prostitutes, party girls and waitresses.

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