CBS hushes up again at Augusta
CBS’s Jim Nantz, interviewed Monday in New York on WFAN Radio, severely criticized Tiger Woods for his “foul language” on the course during the third day of the Masters Tournament.
Nantz’s comments were probably legitimate. But why didn’t he take on Woods during the CBS telecast?
Could it be that CBS Sports seldom, if ever, reports anything negative about events at the Masters?
Such a sacrosanct attitude also might have been responsible for the network’s lack of on-air debate regarding the tasteless comments of Billy Payne, chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club, who rebuked Woods in a prepared statement a day before the start of the tournament.
Surely there was at least one CBS sports personality who would have been eager to politely take issue with Payne’s mean-spirited, sanctimonious sermon.
