Thursday, January 17, 2008

Golfweek Makes Tilghman Case Worse





Sometimes the media is its own worse enemy. It was bad enough that Kelly Tilghman of the Golf Channel suggested during the broadcast of the Mercedes-Benz Championship that Tiger Woods’ young competitors should “lynch him in a back alley ,” a comment that earned her a two week suspension. Now comes Golfweek magazine with a cover article on the controversy illustrated by a hangman’s noose. What were they thinking?

The article itself has merit. It examines the timeline from when Tilghman uttered the despicable remark until it was picked up and reported to the Golf Channel’s decision to suspend her. But illustrating the article with a noose only stirs up the racist images of blacks being lynched that got Tilghman in trouble in the first place. "Was it an arresting image?" said Dave Seanor, the magazine's editor. "Yes, it was. We chose it because it was an image we thought would draw attention to an issue we thought deserved some intelligent dialogue." Here’s a novel suggestion. After he apologizes to Tilghman and to Woods, Seanor should be suspended by his publication.

Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Ron Streck.

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