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...instantaneously on allegations of infidelity, angry wives and golf clubs, and Google makes no distinction between respectable news and what people really want to know. When Woods said in a statement on Dec. 2, "I have let my family down," while still insisting that "personal sins should not require press releases," it was as quaint and futile as President Barack Obama's calling Kanye West a jackass in front of reporters and then asking for take-backs. (See the screwups of Campaign...
...balance of fame seems to be moving from attention controllers to attention seekers. So it makes sense that we're seeing crossovers. Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska until - bummed out by ethics investigations and the press - she could no longer manage as an attention controller (albeit one who used her family life to political advantage when possible). So she resigned and became a full-time attention seeker, a media entity whose posts, tweets and TV appearances are not extensions of her work but the work itself. (Rate the candidates for TIME's Person of the Year...
...Woods is equally ill suited to the kind of kimono-opening demanded by this approach. He has always been prickly with the press about his personal life. So his statements have trickled out piecemeal - the worst way. "I don't see him going Oprah," says Kevin Sullivan, a former White House communications director who now runs his own p.r. firm. "And I don't think he should provide any details of what went...
Woods may not have much choice since his alleged mistresses are reported to have text messages from him and to be willing to share them (at a price, presumably). Also, given the public nature of golf, with the crowds and press able to get close to the players on the course, it's unlikely he can hide completely unless he never plays again. (See pictures of Tiger Woods' best victory moments...
...suggesting that Clemmons had been spotted at Jose Rizal park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of south Seattle. Officers were dispatched to bus and train stations. As the search grew more frantic, frustration and fury over the murders grew too. In a demonstration of restrained anguish at a midmorning press conference during the search, Lakewood police guild president Brian Wurts said emphatically, "This guy should have never been on the street." Visibly agitated, he continued, "I think this country needs to get together and figure out why these people...