Tiger

[Jonathan Lighter]

No.

But you knew that.

I'm paraphrasing someone, perhaps badly: "There are only two kinds of media
messages: _cool_ and _boring_.

Fill in the blanks:

Tiger Woods is  _cool_  because....

Fighting in Afghanistan (remember: _no_ soundtrack) and a nut who blows up a
building are _boring_ because....


JL


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET>
> Subject:      Tiger
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If the purpose of this list can be overstretched to include commentary =
> on responsible broadcasting or the lack of it, I'm wondering if the =
> American journalistic tradition is well served by the current obsession. =
> =20
>
> CBS Morning News (and I'm betting the others, also) devoted the first 12 =
> minutes of today's broadcast to Tiger's upcoming apology, and then =
> followed it up ad nauseam with in-depth interviews with psychologists, =
> apology experts, wronged ex-wives, et al...at a time when the largest =
> recent operation in the war in Afghanistan, with many friendly =
> casualties is underway (no mention at all), a suicide plane flies into =
> an IRS building (secondary story).
>
> Is this defensible?
>
> Bill Palmer
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org