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TIME asked the three networks that broadcast major golf events - NBC, CBS and ABC/ESPN - to talk about how they have handled the issue. Why did NBC pretty much ignore the scandal last weekend? Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, offered only this pabulum: "We said what we thought was appropriate to be said given the continuing tabloid nature of the story. We were there to cover a golfing competition. I'm certain there will be a much clearer set of established facts when our PGA Tour coverage resumes next year." CBS will broadcast what some golf pundits expect...
Mike Tirico, lead golf announcer for ABC/ESPN, said, "The person putting on the TV is coming to watch golf. They're not coming for TMZ or Entertainment Tonight. I've heard people say, 'I don't want to hear that. We came to watch the game. If we want that other stuff, we'll go watch SportsCenter or read about it online.' Dwelling on it for two hours, when it's not impacting the competition, wouldn't make much sense." (See more about Tiger Woods...
Tirico insisted that, at ESPN, the debate about how much news to cover is often fierce. But he clearly leans toward steering clear of the messiness. "Very often, people come to sporting events to get away from all the other stuff," he said. "So you kind of owe them complete coverage of that event...
...have been a witness," TIME's legendary photographer James Nachtwey once said, "and these pictures are my testimony." We have tried something new this year, and that is to get the literal testimony - the words and voices - of the photographers themselves talking about their pictures. It's a way of taking all of us with them on their mission, seeing their images through their eyes. So we have Nachtwey reflecting on his photograph of an Afghan amputee, and David Guttenfelder explaining how he took his haunting image of Marines sleeping in one-man trenches in Afghanistan's Helmand province...
...year? The answer depends on whom you ask. "We took an informal poll of about a dozen of some of the world's leading experts in influenza," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told reporters recently. "About half of them said, Yes, we think it's likely that we'll have another surge in cases. About half said, No, we think it's not likely. And one said, Flip a coin." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...