“It was increasingly vulnerable to anything that happened that was out of the control of the people who built and sustained it, and the events of last week certainly qualify. — The “it” in question was the cocoon of studied obliviousness and access peddling that turned Tiger Woods the skirt-chasing, puerile jock into a flawless, shining pitchman. Never expected to have anything to say about Tiger Woods on Numberwang, but this short piece on the complicity between Woods’ PR people and journalists should resonate for anyone who has been alive for the last fifteen-thirty years.
