Tiger Woods More Important Than 9/11?
Today marks the 20th straight day in a row that Tiger Woods has hit the cover of the New York Post. Want to put that in perspective? The previous holder of the most consecutive Post covers title was the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, which dominated for 19 straight days.
The article adds this.
So what to make of this? For one, despite all the chatter about our decreased, Internet-addled attention spans, we apparently have an insatiable appetite for scandal. Also, Tiger Woods is apparently just as good, or better, at selling newspapers and magazines due to bad behavior as he is at selling sports paraphernalia due to good golf behavior. Other than that I’m not sure it’s a sign of much except that we continue to pay too much attention to celebrities, etc. Also, this is the New York Post, I’m fairly certain they could care less about the larger meaning of anything as long as the papers are selling and they haven’t run out of Tiger puns. Meaning, probably, that the world isn’t going to end quite yet.
I’m sure that there was some government pressure behind all of the coverage of 9/11 so I wouldn’t be surprised that much of the information behind it was suppressed…The government is less interested in Tiger Woods, I don’t expect his coverage to end anytime soon.