On Monday of this week, Tiger Woods hosted an online video Q&A with questions provided by fans via social media. \u00a0 Not unexpectedly, the real media were outraged that Tiger had bypassed them, the only people who could really ask the right questions, in favor of fans who merely had an interest in Tiger’s life.<\/p>\n
Eric Kuselias hinted on a tweet that the interview felt like something what would have taken place in Communist Russia. \u00a0Other reporters’ comments included such phrases as ‘double-bogeyed’, ‘pure fluff’, ‘misses the mark’ and ‘too cool for Wells Fargo’.<\/p>\n
Yes, the interview had a rather\u00a0bizarre feel to it. \u00a0There was Tiger alone in front of a plain screen. \u00a0He looked more like he was undergoing a police\u00a0interrogation\u00a0than\u00a0answering questions from fans. \u00a0And, yes, it did have the feel of being ‘staged’ with the questions being pre-screened. \u00a0But so what? \u00a0Last time I checked, this was still America where people, even vaunted sports celebrities, can speak to whomever they want and whenever they want.<\/p>\n
Now, I know that the PGA does have guidelines \u00a0and obligations for its members\u00a0to speak to the media, but, thanks mostly to the Golf Channel, I’ve seen enough of these interviews with Tiger to be less than impressed with the questions coming from real reporters.<\/p>\n
I mean, seriously, how many\u00a0different\u00a0ways can someone ask Tiger how his knee is holding up and how his swing changes are going? \u00a0The bottom line is that Tiger is so media astute that under all circumstances he only gives the media what he wants to give them. \u00a0This time he decided to change the rules a bit. \u00a0While I applaud him for being forward thinking, I would have liked the interview to have been a bit more spontaneous, but, in the end, I can see no harm in what did.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Monday of this week, Tiger Woods hosted an online video Q&A with questions provided by fans via social media. \u00a0 Not unexpectedly, the real media were outraged that Tiger had bypassed them, the only people who could really ask the right questions, in favor of fans who merely had an interest in Tiger’s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricos-rants"],"yoast_head":"\n