An article in the New York Times reports on the career of Tiger Woods since the revealing of his personal life in November 2009 through his apology statement a couple weeks ago. My take on this is that it is his personal life; therefore I think the only apologizing he had to do was to his wife and family.
I understand that he is a role model to people across the world, everyone knows him, people look up to him, but does that really mean that he is not entitled to his own privacy? As a public figure he should be aware that the media will report on happenings in his life, but I think there needs to be more firm boundaries as to what the media reports on. It’s not like this is a serious issue that affects the world.
This incident wouldn’t have been a big deal if the media didn’t report on it. It would have been a family issue, which is what it should be, and it wouldn’t have affected his career. It never did affect anyone except for his family. So why is there a need to report on it? Because it is Tiger Woods, a golfing celebrity, of course the media is going to report on every aspect of his life either public or private.
So because the media did make his privacy the world’s business, he had an obligation to fix this problem. This brings me to his apology statement a couple weeks ago, which I watched from beginning to end. I feel as if he did a good job given the circumstances.
He did what he had to do as a result of the media, he showed some emotion, but he still kept a firm opinion that it was not right for the media to be following his kids to school and stalking his family for information. Whether he was actually sorry or not, I don’t know. I think it was something he felt obligated to do to fix his image.
But quite honestly, the people that he should be apologizing to were not even at the press conference, so he was apologizing to a room of people who suffered from his actions….how?
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