With the AP AWOL, how will you handle the Tiger sex rehab story?

[HejiraHenry]

AP says they're watching the Tiger-in-rehab story but have no immediate plans to file anything.

"We've tried to stay away from the really sensational stuff," I was told, as if that was a point of pride on a huge reader-interest story.

We feel compelled to do something, as the clinic is in our state. Run a brief with the credit to RadarOnline, etc.

Thoughts?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I don't mean to be insulting, but you don't have a reporter and photographer down there right now? Hell, the first pix of Woods anywhere near that joint are worth a bundle.

 

[JackReacher]

You're really going to run something you pulled from RadarOnline.com?

 

[Ace]

If you can get shots of him whacking off in the bushes one last time before entering the facility, you may get a Pulitzer.

 

[JackReacher]

Hot dammit, Tiger! Quit whhhhacking it in my toolshed.

 

[Football_Bat]

Tiger would rather play with his putter than ... play with his putter.

whut?

 

[slappy4428]

AP says they're watching the Tiger-in-rehab story but have no immediate plans to file anything.

"We've tried to stay away from the really sensational stuff," I was told, as if that was a point of pride on a huge reader-interest story.

We feel compelled to do something, as the clinic is in our state. Run a brief with the credit to RadarOnline, etc.

Thoughts?

Isn't the clinic being in your state punishment enough for the man?

 

[e_bowker]

You can do what one of the Jackson TV stations did. Send a reporter to stand across the street from the clinic, which appears to be on Highway 49, in the hopes that he leaves the tinted car window down when he makes a run to the local Kangaroo for booze and condoms.
That poor reporter had cars whizzing past 10 feet from her as she's doing her stand-up. It was ridiculous.

 

[SoCalDude]

Remember this one? A San Diego reporter hears that Alan Wiggins is in a drug rehab facility. He sneaks his way in, trying to find Wiggins. And he finds teammate Juan Bonilla, too.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

AP says they're watching the Tiger-in-rehab story but have no immediate plans to file anything.

"We've tried to stay away from the really sensational stuff," I was told, as if that was a point of pride on a huge reader-interest story.

We feel compelled to do something, as the clinic is in our state. Run a brief with the credit to RadarOnline, etc.

Thoughts?

Let whoever's in charge of the celebrity gossip roundup deal with it. This part of the story isn't a sports story.

 

[HejiraHenry]

No wonder our business is in trouble.

 

[slappy4428]

AP says they're watching the Tiger-in-rehab story but have no immediate plans to file anything.

"We've tried to stay away from the really sensational stuff," I was told, as if that was a point of pride on a huge reader-interest story.

We feel compelled to do something, as the clinic is in our state. Run a brief with the credit to RadarOnline, etc.

Thoughts?

Let whoever's in charge of the celebrity gossip roundup deal with it. This part of the story isn't a sports story.

It's not a long-drive contest?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

No wonder our business is in trouble.

It's not a sports story. It's a celebrity story and has been for a while.

Do something like the UK's Daily Mail did: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1243589/Tiger-Woods-treated-sex-addiction-U-S-clinic-new-reports-claim.html

Note that it's not listed under Sports but rather under TV&Showbiz.

 

[YGBFKM]

I suppose the original story should have run in the same section as Click&Clack.

 

[Small Town Guy]

No wonder our business is in trouble.

It's not like writing about these stories is a magic cure for magazines or newspapers. How do I know this? Because every celebrity tabloid, from Star, to People, to In Touch, has had hundreds of total layoffs the last year. National Enquirer's parent company went bankrupt, laid off tons of people. So newspapers' salvation isn't coming from figuring out how Tiger can deal with his apparent addiction to doing just that.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

SoCal,

I'd never heard that before. That's pretty funny.

 

[rpmmutant]

No wonder our business is in trouble.

It's not a sports story. It's a celebrity story and has been for a while.

Do something like the UK's Daily Mail did: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1243589/Tiger-Woods-treated-sex-addiction-U-S-clinic-new-reports-claim.html

Note that it's not listed under Sports but rather under TV&Showbiz.

So are you saying golf isn't a sport?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

No wonder our business is in trouble.

It's not a sports story. It's a celebrity story and has been for a while.

Do something like the UK's Daily Mail did: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1243589/Tiger-Woods-treated-sex-addiction-U-S-clinic-new-reports-claim.html

Note that it's not listed under Sports but rather under TV&Showbiz.

So are you saying golf isn't a sport?

I'm saying Woods getting treated for so-called "sex addiction" isn't a sport, except to the TMZ douchebags.

Put it in the same section that reports on Lohan's foibles.

 

[YGBFKM]

Except Lindsey Lohan isn't one of the most recognizable SPORTS figures in the world.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Except Lindsey Lohan isn't one of the most recognizable SPORTS figures in the world.

As one example, Fox News posts this alleged story in its web site's entertainment news section.

As another example, the Hattiesburg paper --- where Woods allegedly is in treatment --- posted the story as a news-section brief.

The alleged Jeter engagement doesn't belong in the sports section, either.