What Tiger Should Say: $1 million for Dirt on Media

In my dream world Tiger Woods would use tomorrow's press conference to provide the country with a few minutes of media literacy and media shaming. Make no mistake nothing about tomorrow's press conference is news. People cheating on their spouses is as American as apple pie. It makes you a bad spouse - its a horrible thing to do - but does it matter to your life? Whether its Tiger Woods, John Edwards, or any other random person who cheats like Jane Fonda or Susan Sarandon, it doesn't better inform our understanding of the world to get every detail of their affairs. Should a person want to provide those details of their life that's one thing, and there should be outlets for that. But Tiger never asked for his personal life to be splashed across the Huffington Post or any where else; he asked for privacy and should get it. What we need is a moment of media literacy a moment for Tiger to get up in front of millions and tell them that these are planned distractions used by the mainstream media to divert attention away from their divestment from important news gathering. It's cheaper and easier to read headlines from TMZ then it is to send a correspondent to Afghanistan or Pakistan to explain the war. It's no mistake that he is news and the war in Iraq has disappeared. Corporations can sell ad-time around a Tiger affair, they can't around the complexities of warfare in the Middle East. I wish Tiger would take this opportunity to say that what has happened with him and his wife is private and none of anyone's business. My biggest wish, is to prove it Tiger would start a fund to shame every person who ran a Tiger Woods story. Nothing would bring home the hypocrisy of the media then to spend money finding dirt on them. Imagine if Tiger offered $1 million for dirt on the editors of TMZ, National Inquirer and Ariana Huffington. If he gave money to find dirt on Brian Williams, Mario Lopez and ESPNs producers who ran this non-story. Ala Ed TV he could use his personal wealth to take it to the purveyor's of this distraction. I know instead tomorrow will probably be a short and contrite apology that he hopes will result in him being forgotten. This is a mistake. Tiger go big go after the failed media system that invaded your privacy.