National Sports Journalism Center

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"The media members/outlets asserting Tiger Woods owes the public and the Florida Highway Patrol an explanation for a fender-bender and his wife’s jaws-of-9-iron rescue owe America an explanation for their self-serving jealousy and obvious stupidity," Jason Whitlock writes. " ‘Tigergate’ is a Twitter, Facebook, TMZ and blog controversy. It’s great gossip. It’s excellent monologue material for Letterman, Conan and Kimmel. . . . ‘Tigergate’ is humorous. It’s not the lead talking point for Mike Lupica on ‘The Sports Reporters.’ When Lupica suggested on Sunday that Tiger needed to handle his driveway fender-bender the way A-Rod handled his steroids controversy, I damn near fell out of my hotel bed in anger when Bill Rhoden didn’t leap from his chair and slap the former dwarf bowling champion." || How should Woods handle public relations crisis? Here. || David Roth of Wall Street Journal examines media reaction. Here. || Jemele Hill of ESPN also takes a look at media reaction. Here. || A look at the international media reaction. Here.