His article is well worth reading. Particularly amusing is the commentary from Charles Barkley:
The danger is that we have come to admire celebrities more than real heroes. Charles Barkley famously made this point in 1993 when he declared, "a million guys can dunk a basketball in jail; should they be role models?" Later that year, Barkley filmed a self-written Nike commercial in which he argued that athletes should not be considered role models: "I am not a role model," Barkley said. "I am not paid to be a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball, doesn't mean I should raise your kids."
Maybe a bigger question to come out of this is:
How obligated are the media to report "wrong doing?"
How about the public. Most of us have been taught:
"don't be a tattle tail." In the criminal world
being a "snitch" is a death sentence.
Congress has passed laws protecting "whistle blowers."
IRS pays a reward for reporting tax cheats. We're on
difficult ground here.
I guess it is "Animal Farm" all over. Some are more
equal than others. Maybe it's like the judge on the
SCOUS famously said, "I can't define porn but I know
it when I see it."
Aren't some enterprises "too big to fail.". Tiger
certainly belonged to that group. I guess there is a
"tipping point" to every dilemma. Define that point
and you have solved the mysteries of the universe.