Tiger Woods with girlfriend and skier Lindsey Vonn. ()
This is all so ridiculous.
These are the basics, in case you haven’t been following the ridiculousness:
- Dan Jenkins penned a for Golf Digest. It was pretty funny, and completely innocuous. It even said it was fake in the headline and included a picture of a Tiger look-alike who, really, doesn’t look all that much like Tiger.
- Tiger, however, was not amused. He for Derek Jeter’s site The Players’ Tribune, ripping Jenkins for writing a parody because, well, who could even think to do such a horrific thing?!
- Now Vonn, who is back to training in Colorado after re-injuring her knee and is still dating Tiger, .
That’s right, Jenkins faked an interview, which fails as parody, and is really more like a grudge-fueled piece of character assassination.
Journalistically and ethically, can you sink any lower?
“We talked about the article and that he was going to say something,” Vonn told USA TODAY Sports. “I completely agree with him. I agree with his statement and I’m glad that he did it. That’s not journalism. It was like a fabricated interview, like what (Jenkins) thinks Tiger would say.
“But it went way too far, and it wasn’t very clear that it was a joke, that it was fabricated. If you read it, you might think that it was actually Tiger talking. The whole thing is completely ridiculous.”
How do you miss the big “fake” in the headline? Or the asterisk? Or the subhead with the asterisk: “*Or how it plays out in my mind”? Or the “fake” on ?
Have we mentioned the ridiculousness of this?
