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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I understand what you are saying and I agree. I also think that how people FEEL about Tiger Woods may have a lot to do with gender. My husband is more willing to give him another chance. I just have never liked his "ups and downs" and angry faces and bad language. That isn't the golf I know or like from amateurs OR professionals. Golfers have always been to me, a cut above other athletes in their behavior. Golfers to me are supposed to act like ladies and gentlemen.
I know this; What the camera focuses on has a lot to do with the producers of the piece and WHAT THEY THINK INTERESTS PEOPLE. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't.
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You're absolutely correct in that the media is only showing what people want to see. Tiger generates more interest in a golf tournament than all of the other players combined. He generates more interest than any player since Arnold Palmer.
You'll see angry faces from all of the players and bad language from many of them. They are usually fined for using bad language. The reason that it seems that Tiger uses bad language more than other players is that he is on your television screen a lot more than other players. As the OP points out, it could be as much as one half of the coverage is dedicated to Tiger. I guarantee that if most of the other players were on the screen as much as Tiger, you'd see and hear the same things.
Then again, as I tried to convey earlier, we should balance the negatives with the positives. Tiger has done more for golf than any other golfer except for possibly Arnold Palmer. He has generated interest in golf from minorities and young people. This is good for both of those groups.
He also does a huge amount of charity work and has established charities that that help hundreds of thousands of needy people. This to me, outweighs his occasional swear word.