What is it about our obsession with the PRIVATE lives of public figures?
If it doesn’t affect their professional responsibilities, why should we care? Marital infidelity is wrong. As with so many things, in today’s society, folks shy away from declaring things as wrong such as children born out of wedlock with no father figure in a child’s life among many other things that would be frowned upon severely in the past.
Estimates suggest one in four men cheat on their wives. If we don’t make a big deal about celebrities’ marriages if they’re stable, why should we care when they’re shaky?
Bill Clinton’s womanizing was more involved than just seeking his pleasure outside his relationship with his wife, Hilary. Since he was “on the job” and had a relationship that involved a subordinate in the White House barely an adult, more serious issues surfaced with his tryst. If any family realized their daughter was being taken advantage of by a male superior at her workplace, that would be a legitimate issue for condemnation which exceeds the scope of a messed up adult relationship involving the parties involved.
There’s a line between having an affair and becoming a sexual glutton involved in far more than the casual affair.
Tiger Woods’ situation is troubling, but so far it appears to be something that should be kept out of the press. The extent to which the trashy press, the tabloids, are invested in playing this up to the max is disturbing, but the sports media and cable news can’t resist despite their moralizing which seems to say, “should we really be doing this,” makes it all the less genuine.
Tiger Woods is a real person who has been living a carefully constructed public image. That image has led to the Tiger Woods brand, one of the most popular images to be used to sell product. Aside from being professional golf’s first successful Black, though truly multi-racial, champs, he has also been promoted off a friendly, squeaky clean image of the young man who learned to play golf from a loving father who was always by his side in his early days. It’s hard not to see Tiger Woods as a man with a huge ego too. All in all, who could be seen in a more positive light than Tiger Woods?
He will never been seen the same again. How far this goes depends partly on his efforts to rise above it. Much will depend on how well he plays golf when competition resumes next month. Meanwhile the press will milk his errors for every last bit of exposure for their outlet they can gain.
How much of this is “should know” or “need to know” is very debatable.
If it doesn’t affect their professional responsibilities, why should we care? Marital infidelity is wrong. As with so many things, in today’s society, folks shy away from declaring things as wrong such as children born out of wedlock with no father figure in a child’s life among many other things that would be frowned upon severely in the past.
Estimates suggest one in four men cheat on their wives. If we don’t make a big deal about celebrities’ marriages if they’re stable, why should we care when they’re shaky?
Bill Clinton’s womanizing was more involved than just seeking his pleasure outside his relationship with his wife, Hilary. Since he was “on the job” and had a relationship that involved a subordinate in the White House barely an adult, more serious issues surfaced with his tryst. If any family realized their daughter was being taken advantage of by a male superior at her workplace, that would be a legitimate issue for condemnation which exceeds the scope of a messed up adult relationship involving the parties involved.
There’s a line between having an affair and becoming a sexual glutton involved in far more than the casual affair.
Tiger Woods’ situation is troubling, but so far it appears to be something that should be kept out of the press. The extent to which the trashy press, the tabloids, are invested in playing this up to the max is disturbing, but the sports media and cable news can’t resist despite their moralizing which seems to say, “should we really be doing this,” makes it all the less genuine.
Tiger Woods is a real person who has been living a carefully constructed public image. That image has led to the Tiger Woods brand, one of the most popular images to be used to sell product. Aside from being professional golf’s first successful Black, though truly multi-racial, champs, he has also been promoted off a friendly, squeaky clean image of the young man who learned to play golf from a loving father who was always by his side in his early days. It’s hard not to see Tiger Woods as a man with a huge ego too. All in all, who could be seen in a more positive light than Tiger Woods?
He will never been seen the same again. How far this goes depends partly on his efforts to rise above it. Much will depend on how well he plays golf when competition resumes next month. Meanwhile the press will milk his errors for every last bit of exposure for their outlet they can gain.
How much of this is “should know” or “need to know” is very debatable.
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