Posted on 04/11/2011 5:42:15 AM PDT by ejdrapes
Updated: 6:07 AM, April 11, 2011 The unsurprising twist about the weekend's Masters coverage on CBS is that Saturday's was no different from Sunday's. When Tiger Woods was behind by five, Saturday, or tied at the top, yesterday, it was still mostly all Woods, mostly all the time. What TV now does best is beat things to death. Doesn't matter who or what it is -- Charlie Sheen or Charles Barkley -- TV is going to squeeze it dry. The Masters used to be televised by CBS as one of golf's majors, as special. Follow the leaders, show a few shots from old and recent champs, but no one's bigger than the Masters or the Until Tiger Woods. And Saturday, the Masters became just another tournament in which Tiger Woods, plus some other guys, played. The same pathetic formula. It didn't matter that Woods's once-incomparable game has been on the fade. It didn't matter that Woods was five strokes off the lead. It didn't matter that eight players were ahead of him. It didn't matter that Woods in the last two years has been self-scandalized, proven to be the opposite of the wife and kids family-first guy, nothing close to the greatest-human-ever image that TV carved for him -- and still held tightly to. It didn't matter that he's a never-could-hide-it and still-can't brat on the golf course. And it didn't matter that this was the Masters. The most live video, Saturday, was devoted to Woods. The most taped video was devoted to Woods. The most talk was devoted to Woods. It became so silly -- rather, it stayed so silly -- that when co-leader Jason Day appeared in a taped interview, it was to hear him talking about Woods!CBS Masters art of following Woods
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Somebody finally put in print what I’ve been noticing for years.
The sports media is the same towards Tiger as the regular media are towards Barry. They’d line up to suck his, um, putter.
Right on the money
Maddeningly difficult? Not when I can take home a mental image of a beautiful shot that made the whole morning worth while, (along with the catching up with buddies and beers). If only I could do something about the other 119 strokes...
That could be, but if it is true, McIlroy and Cabrera have themselves to blame for letting it get to them. I see nothing wrong with it if it was a tactic because Schwartzel was never warned for slow play.
I just looked at cbssports.com. Guess whose mug is on the front page? That’s right. TW. The story is about how his Sunday run is legendary.’Scuse me while I BAAAARRRF. I feel better now.
The coverage when Jack played is no different that the coverage when Tiger plays. Billy Casper could be leading, but you would see far more of Jack, even if he was 4 shots back.
Unfortunately....I relearn this lesson regularly when I have a good round going....
(my best rounds have been when I'm just trying not to embarrass myself and get thru them.....Grrrrr....)
Getting some new/young blood winning major championships is good for golf. Tiger had his time, he will not dominate the tour as he once did. There still may be a final chapter written by him winning a major here or there, but no one fears the tiger anymore.
“Tiger” like BO, two jerks who conned the media and the public. The media just can’t stand to let go.
Did you happen to see the replay of Jack Nicklaus' Masters' win in 1986? ESPN played it several times over the weekend.
Seve Ballesteros had a huge lead, and even though Niicklaus was making a great run on the back nine, Seve was looking at a "routine" shot to make birdie, or possibly eagle on #15. Ballesteros inexplicably pull-hooked a 191-yard second shot, landing in the water in front of the green. He ended up bogeying the hole, and never recovered. Nicklaus went on to win his sixth green jacket.
I was there yesterday and very surprised to see the TV booths looked as if they're only 10-15 feet off the ground and right beside the greens, not set back. Probably a throwback to when the course wasn't blanketed with cameras and they really had to see what was happening from the tower.
Interesting comment!
Ratings are up when Tiger is in contention. CBS is still a for profit business, pandering to the audience is their job.
I only ever played once way back in college. Unfortunately, we got back late which caused me to be campused for the weekend (too many “late minutes”).
I am not good at aiming anything, lol.
TW is an adultering fool who has let his lust destroy his family. I have no respect for him and root against him everytime I see his arrogant face in a tournament.
He was brought up as the only child of an adoring father with a lot of time on his hands. The dad was living through the son. You are seeing the results.
Obama was brought up by Communists and Muslims who seemed to have enough money and time to do as they pleased. He was taught to hate America. You are seeing the results.
His Blackness is perhaps more of a media-created identity than anything. He's more Asian than anything else. Tiger Woods is a quarter Chinese, a quarter Thai, a quarter Black, an eighth Native American and an eighth Dutch. Perhaps Tiger grew up thinking of himself as Black.
What really matters is that it's a great story for golf and the media, so Tiger Woods is always portrayed as Black.
And, of course, the Blacks won first pick in the inaugural Racial Draft and chose Woods, making him officially Black, which angered the Asians.
Maybe the camera was “manned” by a cheap nightclub waitress.
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