When Tiger Woods and scandal collide, truth becomes the victim

[Louisiana1976]

The news-gathering landscape has mutated so quickly and so absolutely, at once enhanced and contaminated by the immediacy of everything from texts to Twitter to TMZ, that America's most famous athlete this weekend went from suffering a serious injury in a car accident . . . to suffering a minor injury in a car accident . . . to being ``fine,'' according to his agent . . . to reportedly being unfaithful to his wife . . . to maybe having his face scratched by his angry wife . . . to being rescued by his helpful wife from his crashed car with a golf club . . . to having his car smashed up by his betrayed wife and her golf club . . . to not being any kind of ``fine'' at all.

Not all of that can be true, obviously, but who cares?

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http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/columnists/dan-le-batard/story/1356247.html

[Chemisse]

1. If he did not commit a crime, it is really not our business - nt

[trixie]

5. I agree

The airing of this is just going to make it harder for him to do the right thing. If his wife did attack him he needs to get help right away. Spousal abuse is no laughing matter and should be addressed right away, especially with a child in the home.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Well, as in everything, if he doesn't state the truth, it will grow into a very ugly

supposition of even worse things.

[pscot]

3. Why?

Private citizens lie all the time. There's no law against it. Sometimes the truth is awkward, or inconvenient, or just nobody's damn business.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Toto, this certainly isn't Kansas anymore

You're on planet earth. Humans are not robots. Curiosity is the way of life. Even men read gossip rags style magazines. If you're famous, that's just the way it is. Money and power does have its down side.

People will (just watch) become more curious the more he refuses to make a statement.