Tiger Woods is heading straight for the bunker December 11, 2009
Posted by thegoodbadtruth in Uncategorized.Tags: golf, sport, tiger, tiger woods, woods
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I just logged on and read on BBC News that Tiger Woods has obtained an injunction from a British judge which “prevents certain information purportedly about him being published” in the United Kingdom for ongoing legal reasons.
The guy has got it all wrong.
If he thinks he can stop the Internet from publishing every last little purported detail, true or false, of what is “purported” to be his extra-marital love life he is living in cloud cuckoo land.
There is no way that the British will not be able to access everything that is being written about him on the Internet, if not in the printed press.
Tiger Woods is making all the wrong moves here, and if he continues to think that the whole world should only have access to his life via “official channels” he is going to be one big-time disappointed man.
I am extremely surprised that he could be so dumb as to think that this tactic could work, and I am even more surprised that his lawyers would apparently agree to this pointless and counter-productive initiative.
Tiger, you play a mean round of golf, but your PR is lousy and it’s time for you to man up here.
There are supposedly some nude photos of him that someone is attempting to sell. He might be able to prevent their publication in the UK but not in the US where celebrities suffer under different privacy laws.
How could someone who had the world on a string make so many dumb mistakes?
It really is too bad, isn’t it. I read this morning that he has left golf “indefinitely.”
Awful. It really does seem to me that he and his wife, but more particularly his entourage (which should have advised him differently, by threatening to resign if necessary to drive home their point) made a lot of PR errors.
This was a textbook example of how not to deal with this kind of situation if you are in the public eye.
I’m just sorry it had to be him…..